Simians, Cyborgs, and Women

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ISBN: 9780415903868 | 0415903866
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/1/1991

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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.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Nature as a System of Production and Reproduction
Animal Sociology and a Natural Economy of the Body Politic: A Political Physiology of Dominance	p. 7
The Past Is the Contested Zone: Human Nature and Theories of Production and Reproduction in Primate Behaviour Studies	p. 21
The Biological Enterprise: Sex, Mind, and Profit from Human Engineering to Sociobiology	p. 43
Contested Readings: Narrative Natures
In the Beginning Was the Word: The Genesis of Biological Theory	p. 71
The Contest for Primate Nature: Daughters of Man-the-Hunter in the Field, 1960-80	p. 81
Reading Buchi Emecheta: Contests for 'Women's Experience' in Women's Studies	p. 109
Differential Politics for Inappropriate/d Others
'Gender' for a Marxist Dictionary: The Sexual Politics of a Word	p. 127
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century	p. 149
Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective	p. 183
The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Constitutions of Self in Immune System Discourse	p. 203
Notes	p. 231
Bibliography	p. 255
Index	p. 277
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