Donna Haraway

Simians, Cyborgs, and Women

The Reinvention of Nature

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Produktbeschreibung

Simians, Cyborgs and Women is a powerful collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989. Although on the surface, simians, cyborgs and women may seem an odd threesome, Haraway describes their profound link as "creatures" which have had a great destabilizing place in Western evolutionary technology and biology. Throughout this book, Haraway analyzes accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs. At once a social reality and a science fiction, the cyborg--a hybrid of organism and machine--represents transgressed boundaries and intense fusions of the nature/culture split. By providing an escape from rigid dualisms, the cyborg exists in a post-gender world, and as such holds immense possibilities for modern feminists. Haraway's recent book, Primate Visions, has been called "outstanding," "original," and "brilliant," by leading scholars in the field. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women tradition--establishing

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780415903875
• ISBN-10: 0415903874
• Artikelnr.: 21407350

Autorenporträt

Donna Haraway

Inhaltsangabe

I. Nature as a System of Production and Reproduction 1. Animal Sociology
and a Natural Economy of the Body Politic 2. The Past Is the Contested Zone
3. The Biological Enterprise II. Contested Readings: Narrative Natures 4.
In the Beginning Was the Word 5. The Contest for Primate Nature 6. Reading
Buchi Emecheta III. Differential Politics of Innappropriate/d Others 7.
'Gender' for a Marxist Dictionary 8. A Cyborg Manifesto 9. Situated
Knowledges 10. The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies