Simians, cyborgs, and women : the reinvention of nature / Donna J. Haraway.

By:

Haraway, Donna Jeanne

Material type:

TextPublication details: London : Free Association Book, 1991.Description: x, 287 p., 11 p. of plates : ill. b&w ; 23 cmContent type:

text

ISBN:

9781853431395

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DDC classification:

305.4

Contents:

Pt. 1. Nature as a system of production and reproduction -- Ch. 1. Animal sociology and a natural economy of the body politic: A political physiology of dominance -- Ch. 2. The past is the contested zone: Human nature and theories of production and reproduction in primate behavior studies -- Ch. 3. The biological enterprise: Sex, mind, and profit from human engineering to sociology -- Pt. 2. Contested reading: Narrative natures -- Ch. 4. In the beginning was the world: The genesis of biological theory -- Ch. 5. The contest for primate nature: Daughters of man-the hunter in the field, 1960-80 -- Ch. 6. Reading Buchi Emecheta: Contest for 'women's experience' in women's studies -- Pt. 3. Differential politics for inappropriate/d others -- Ch. 7. 'Gender' for a Marxist dictionary: The sexual politics of a world -- Ch. 8. A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century -- Ch. 9. Situated knowledge: the science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective -- Ch. 10. The biopolitics of postmodern bodies: Constitutions of self in immune system discourse.

Summary: Donna Haraway analyses accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs (cybernetic components); showing how deeply cultural assumptions penetrate into allegedly value-neutral medical research.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Nature as a system of production and reproduction --
Ch. 1. Animal sociology and a natural economy of the body politic: A political physiology of dominance --
Ch. 2. The past is the contested zone: Human nature and theories of production and reproduction in primate behavior studies --
Ch. 3. The biological enterprise: Sex, mind, and profit from human engineering to sociology --
Pt. 2. Contested reading: Narrative natures --
Ch. 4. In the beginning was the world: The genesis of biological theory --
Ch. 5. The contest for primate nature: Daughters of man-the hunter in the field, 1960-80 --
Ch. 6. Reading Buchi Emecheta: Contest for 'women's experience' in women's studies --
Pt. 3. Differential politics for inappropriate/d others --
Ch. 7. 'Gender' for a Marxist dictionary: The sexual politics of a world --
Ch. 8. A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century --
Ch. 9. Situated knowledge: the science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective --
Ch. 10. The biopolitics of postmodern bodies: Constitutions of self in immune system discourse.

Donna Haraway analyses accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs (cybernetic components); showing how deeply cultural assumptions penetrate into allegedly value-neutral medical research.

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