Evelyn Fox Keller argued that science imposed a narrow masculine framework that distorted inquiry
The New York Times reports: Evelyn Fox Keller, a theoretical physicist, a mathematical biologist and, beginning in the late 1970s, a feminist theorist who explored the way gender pervades and distorts scientific inquiry, died on Sept. 22 at an assisted living home in Cambridge, Mass. She was 87. Her children, Jeffrey and Sarah Keller, confirmed the death. They did not specify a cause. Dr. Keller trained as a physicist and focused much of her early work on applying mathematical concepts…