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A 5 page paper which examines relationships between
Sigmund Freud’s essay on femininity and Evelyn Fox Keller’s “Gender and Science.” No
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that science is not a field that allows for any perspective but the male perspective and that clearly involves the science of the mind. In these regards we note that
many feminists approach the field of science arguing that a great deal of information and/or perspective, may be lost through such a male dominated field. This, however, may or may
not be the case. In further attempting to understand the possible truth in such assumptions the following paper examines some of the arguments presented by Evelyn Fox Keller in her
essay "Gender and Science." Kellers Position and Freud The first argument we examine concerns how Freud may well have reacted, using the arguments of Keller, in indicating that
women who want more power in science are actually women who only want to rise to the position of men. We look at one of the statements made by Keller
and analyze it as it involves the possibility of Freuds using it to support his own argument.. The Keller statement is as follows: "To both scientists and their public, scientific
thought is male thought, in ways that painting and writing-also largely performed by men-have never been. As Simmel observed, objectivity itself is an ideal that has long history of identification
with masculinity. The fact that the scientific population is, even now, a population that is overwhelmingly male, is itself a consequence rather than a cause of the attribution of masculinity
to scientific thought" (p. 76). In order to argue that Freud could use this particular argument for his own sake, using it to indicate that Keller is only arguing
that women wish to rise to the position of men, one must closely tear the wording apart and perhaps even assume opinions that do not exist. In doing so, and
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