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This week: Biology as Ideology by Lewontin, and Reflections on Gender and Science, by Keller. Mostly finished with both. Interesting points. The rabidly anti-feminist should skip Keller, but I thought she did a good job of discussing the history of gender and sexual metaphors in Western science, while not trying to throw the baby out with the bath water (and she is a practicing mathematical biologist, after all). Lewontin is extremely accessible, and, as a geneticist, warns about placing too much faith in genetics (or any other science) to answer every human ill.
And now I need to go write a paper about them. Pardon me....
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