Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
Douban
The Reinvention of Nature
Donna Haraway
Sinossi
Donna Haraway analyses accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs (cybernetic components); showing how deeply cultural assumptions penetrate into allegedly value-neutral medical research.
contents
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
