Simians, cyborgs, and women : the reinvention of nature
Title:
Simians, cyborgs, and women : the reinvention of nature
ISBN:
9781135964764
9781135964757
9780203873106
9781299625068
9781853431388
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Publication Information New:
New York : Routledge, 1991.
©1991
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 287 pages) : illustrations
Contents:
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 -- 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 -- "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.
Abstract:
"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"--Provided by publisher.
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WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650
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Electronic Access:
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Language:
English