Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature - Brossura

Haraway, Donna

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0415903874 ISBN 13: 9780415903875

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1991

Riassunto

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.)

Su questo libro

Contenuti:

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

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Book by Haraway Donna J

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0415903874
• ISBN 13: 9780415903875
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 312