Simians, Cyborgs, and Women

The Reinvention of Nature

Donna Haraway (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)

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Routledge
12 December 1990

Literature: history & criticism; Development studies; Cultural studies; Medical research; Sci-Fi Reference

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. (First published in 1991.)

By: Donna Haraway (University of California Santa Cruz USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9780415903875
ISBN 10: 0415903874
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 12 December 1990
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Other merchandise
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Reviews for Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature

""As a whole, the book is a valuable and significant addition to the recent scholarship that argues for the sociol construction of nature. Haraway is an acknowledged authority on the history of scientific research on primates, and the book is thorough and probing in its analysis of primate studies. It is also provocative and original in its discussion of words such as ""gender"", ""nature"", and ""experience."" -- M.H. Chaplin Choice ""...the book as a whole presents the relationship of the sciences to feminist theory in a thorough, even-handed manner."" -- Cara E. Richards, Transylvania University Science Books and Films