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The Gender/Science System: or, Is Sex To Gender As Nature Is To Science?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Evelyn Fox Keller
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Abstract

In this paper, I explore the problematic relation between sex and gender in parallel with the equally problematic relation between nature and science. I also offer a provisional analysis of the political dynamics that work to polarize both kinds of discourse, focusing especially on their intersection (i.e., on discussions of gender and science), and on that group most directly affected by all of the above considerations (i.e., women scientists).

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Research Article
Information
Hypatia , Volume 2 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Feminism and Science, Part 1 , Fall 1987 , pp. 37 - 49
Copyright
Copyright © 1987 by Hypatia, Inc.

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