TY - BOOK AU - Haraway,Donna Jeanne TI - Simians, cyborgs, and women: the reinvention of nature SN - 9781853431395 U1 - 305.4 PY - 1991/// CY - London PB - Free Association Book KW - Sociobiology KW - Feminist criticism KW - Primates KW - Behavior KW - Human behavior N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -