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

Haraway, Donna, 1944-

New York : Routledge, 2013

Online-Ressource (312 p)

Englisch

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One Nature as a System of Production and Reproduction; Chapter One Animal Sociology and a Natural Economy of the Body Politic: A Political Physiology of Dominance; Chapter Two The Past Is the Contested Zone: Human Nature and Theories of Production and Reproduction in Primate Behaviour Studies; Chapter Three The Biological Enterprise: Sex, Mind, and Profit from Human Engineering to Sociobiology; Part Two Contested Readings: Narrative Nature

Chapter Four In the Beginning Was the Word: The Genesis of Biological TheoryChapter Five The Contest for Primate Nature: Daughters of Man-the-Hunter in the Field, 1960-80; Chapter Six Reading Buchi Emecheta: Contests for 'Women's Experience' in Women's Studies; Part Three Differential Politics for Inappropriate/d Others; Chapter Seven 'Gender' for a Marxist Dictionary: The Sexual Politics of a Word; Chapter Eight A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century

Chapter Nine Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial PerspectiveChapter Ten The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Constitutions of Self in Immune System Discourse; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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Erscheint auch als: Simians, cyborgs, and women / Haraway, Donna (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-415-90387-5

978-1-135-96476-4 ( : 106.97 (NL))

MS 3000  | MS 3150  | HD 300      Ähnliche Literatur

GN365.9 .H37

304.5

Basisklassifikation: 71.05 (Soziologische Richtungen)

bcl: 42.66

*Soziobiologie ; Primaten ; Verhalten ; Feminismus      Zum Register

*Soziobiologie ; Verhalten ; Feminismus      Zum Register

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Feministische Theorie ; Naturwissenschaftskritik ; Körperpolitik ; Geschlechterdifferenz ; Theorie ; Wissenschaftsforschung ; Biologie ; Feminism++related to++biology ; Biology++related to++feminism ; Feminism ; Biology

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--represent