ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 traces the agency of Rosalind Franklin unfolding on the interface of her situatedness, her sexuality, and her existential self-assertion in intra-action with not only other epistemic agents but also with the materiality of epistemic apparatuses and concepts. In doing so, the chapter challenges the simplistic images of Franklin as either a victim or a hero and shows that Franklin’s agency in the making-of-the-science of the double helix was fraught with contradictions in such a way that she occupied positions of domination and marginality at the same time during different temporal and epistemic locations in the process.
