Main entry:

Haraway, Donna Jeanne, author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1991.
©1991

Description:

x, 287 pages, 11 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-276) and index.
Introduction -- Part 1: Nature as a system of production and reproduction. Animal sociology and a natural economy of the body politic : a political physiology of dominance ; The past is the contested zone : human nature and theories of production and reproduction in primate behaviour studies ; The biological enterprise : sex, mind, and profit from human engineering to sociobiology -- Part 2: Contested readings : narrative natures. In the beginning was the word : the genesis of biological theory ; The contest for primate nature : daughters of man-the-hunter in the field, 1960-80 ; Reading Buchi Emecheta : contests for "women's experience" in women's studies -- Part 3: Differential politics for inappropriate/d others. "Gender" for a Marxist dictionary : the sexual politics of a word ; A cyborg manifesto : science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century ; Situated knowledges : the science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective ; The biopolitics of postmodern bodies : constitutions of self in immune system discourse.

Summary:

"The idea that nature is constructed, not discovered - that truth is made, not found - is the keynote of recent scholarship in the history of science. Tracing the gendered roots of science in culture, Donna Haraway's writings about scientific research on monkeys and apes is arguably the finest scholarship in this tradition. She has carefully studied the publications, the papers, the correspondence, and the history of the expeditions and institutions of primate studies, uncovering the historical construction of the pedigrees for existing social relations - the naturalization of race, sex, and class. Throughout this book she is analysing accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs (cybernetic organisms: systems which embrace organic and technological components). She also looks critically at the immune system as an information system, and shows how deeply our cultural assumptions penetrate into allegedly value-neutral medical research. In several of these essays she explores and develops the contested terms of reference of existing feminist scholarship; and by mapping the fate of two potent and ambiguous words-'nature' and 'experience'-she uncovers new visions and provides the possibility of a new politics of hope"--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0415903866
9780415903868
0415903874 (pbk.)
9780415903875 (pbk.)
9781138834460 (hbk.)
1138834467 (hbk.)

Subject:

Sociobiology.
Feminism and science.
Feminist criticism.
Primates Behavior.
Human behavior.
Biopolitics.
Feminist literary criticism.
Behavior
Sociobiologie.
Critique féministe.
Primates Mœurs et comportement.
Comportement humain.
Féminisme et sciences.
Biopolitique.
human behavior.
Feminismus
Primaten
Verhaltensforschung
Aufsatzsammlung
Feminisme.
Sociobiologia.
Comportamento (genética)
Virtual reality Social aspects.
afgestudeerden
graduates
geschiedenis
history
filosofie
philosophy
primaten
onderzoek
research
vrouwen
women
vrouwenemancipatie
emancipation of women
gelijke behandeling van de vrouw
female equality
feminisme
feminism
natuurwetenschappen
natural sciences
natuur
nature
wetenschap
science
Gender and Philosophy
Gender en filosofie

Form/genre:

Essays.
Aufsatzsammlung.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295937
Call No.: BIB 242300
Status: Available