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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.
Donna Haraway's work has transformed the fields of cyberculture, feminist studies, and the history of science and technology. Her subjects range from animal dioramas in the American Museum of Natural History to research in transgenic mice, from gender in the laboratory to the nature of the cyborg. Haraway's books and essays have become essential reading in cultural studies, gender studies, and the history of science. The Haraway Reader brings together a generous selection of Donna Haraway's work. Included is her 'Manifesto for Cyborgs' in which she famously wrote that she "would rather be a cyborg than a goddess". Other selections are taken from her three major works, Primate Visions, Modest Witness and Cyborgs and Women, as well as some of her more recent writing on animals. For readers in cultural studies, feminist theory, science studies, and cyberculture, Donna Haraway is one of our keenest observers of nature, science, and the social world. This volume is ideal introduction to her thought.
'I experience language as an intensely physical process,' writes Donna Haraway. 'I cannot not think through metaphor ... Biochemistry and language just don't feel that different to me.' Since the appearance of her monumental Primate Visions and the now classic essay A Manifesto for Cyborgs, feminist historian of science Donna Haraway has created a way of thinking about culture, science, and the production of knowledge that has made her one of the most highly regarded theorists in America. She is admired for her passion and rigor, her wicked ironies, and her deep commitment to issues of gender and race, as well as species. The author of four seminal works on science and culture, Donna Haraway here speaks for the first time in a direct and non-academic voice. Thyrza Nichols Goodeve leads her subject through conversation about Haraway's intellectual development, theories and influences, the role of Catholicism in her thinking, and how her ethical stands have mirrored issues in her personal life. For readers who have admired and struggled with the rich and complex performances of her earlier works, How Like A Leaf will be a welcome inside view of the author's thought.
'I experience language as an intensely physical process', writes Donna Haraway. 'I cannot not think through metaphor...Biochemistry and language just don't feel that different to me.' Since the appearance of her monumental Primate Visions and the now classic essay A Manifesto For Cyborgs, feminist historian of science Donna Haraway has created a way of thinking about culture, science, and the production of knowledge that has made her one of the most highly regarded theorists in America. She is admired for her passion and rigor, her wicked ironies, and her deep commitment to issues of gender and race, as well as species. The author of four seminal works on science and culture, Donna Haraway here speaks for the first time in a direct and non-academic voice. Thyrza Nichols Goodeve leads her subject through conversation about Haraway's intellectual development, theories and influences, the role of Catholicism in her thinking, and how her ethical stands have mirrored issues in her personal life. For readers who have admired and struggled with the rich and complex performances of her earlier works, How Like A Leaf will be a welcome inside view of the author's thought.
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.)
As the planet's human numbers grow and environmental concerns
proliferate, natural scientists, economists, and policy-makers are
increasingly turning to new and old questions about families and
kinship as matters of concern. From government programs designed to
fight declining birth rates in Europe and East Asia, to
controversial policies seeking to curb population growth in
countries where birth rates remain high, to increasing income
inequality transnationally, issues of reproduction introduce new
and complicated moral and political quandaries. Making Kin Not
Population ends the silence on these issues with essays from
leading anti-racist, ecologically-concerned, feminist scholars.
Though not always in accord, these contributors provide bold
analyses of complex issues of intimacy and kinship, from
reproductive justice to environmental justice, and from human and
nonhuman genocides to new practices for making families and kin.
This timely work offers vital proposals for forging innovative
personal and public connections in the contemporary world.
For readers in cultural studies, feminist theory, science studies
and cyberculture, Donna Haraway is a keen observers of nature,
science and the social world. This volume is provides an
introduction to her thought.
Feminist theorist and philosopher Donna Haraway has substantially
impacted thought on science, cyberculture, the environment,
animals, and social relations. This long-overdue volume explores
her influence on feminist theory and philosophy, paying particular
attention to her more recent work on companion species, rather than
her "Manifesto for Cyborgs." Margret Grebowicz and Helen Merrick
argue that the ongoing fascination with, and re-production of, the
cyborg has overshadowed Haraway's extensive body of work in ways
that run counter to her own transdisciplinary practices. Sparked by
their own personal "adventures" with Haraway's work, the authors
offer readings of her texts framed by a series of theoretical and
political perspectives: feminist materialism, standpoint
epistemology, radical democratic theory, queer theory, and even
science fiction. They situate Haraway's critical storytelling and
"risky reading" practices as forms of feminist methodology and
recognize her passionate engagement with "naturecultures" as the
theoretical core driving her work. Chapters situate Haraway as
critic, theorist, biologist, feminist, historian, and humorist,
exploring the full range of her identities and reflecting her
commitment to embodying all of these modes simultaneously.
The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere
is the struggle more contentiousOCoor more fraught with
paradoxOCothan in the burgeoning realm of genetics. A constructive
response, and a welcome intervention, this volume brings together
biological and cultural anthropologists to conduct an
interdisciplinary dialogue that provokes and instructs even as it
bridges the science/culture divide.Individual essays address issues
raised by the science, politics, and history of race, evolution,
and identity; genetically modified organisms and genetic diseases;
gene work and ethics; and the boundary between humans and animals.
The result is an entree to the complicated nexus of questions
prompted by the power and importance of genetics and genetic
thinking, and the dynamic connections linking culture, biology,
nature, and technoscience. The volume offers critical perspectives
on science and culture, with contributions that span disciplinary
divisions and arguments grounded in both biological perspectives
and cultural analysis. An invaluable resource and a provocative
introduction to new research and thinking on the uses and study of
genetics, "Genetic Nature/Culture "is a model of fruitful dialogue,
presenting the quandaries faced by scholars on both sides of the
two-cultures debate."
Feminist theorist and philosopher Donna Haraway has substantially
impacted thought on science, cyberculture, the environment,
animals, and social relations. This long-overdue volume explores
her influence on feminist theory and philosophy, paying particular
attention to her more recent work on companion species, rather than
her "Manifesto for Cyborgs." Margret Grebowicz and Helen Merrick
argue that the ongoing fascination with, and re-production of, the
cyborg has overshadowed Haraway's extensive body of work in ways
that run counter to her own transdisciplinary practices. Sparked by
their own personal "adventures" with Haraway's work, the authors
offer readings of her texts framed by a series of theoretical and
political perspectives: feminist materialism, standpoint
epistemology, radical democratic theory, queer theory, and even
science fiction. They situate Haraway's critical storytelling and
"risky reading" practices as forms of feminist methodology and
recognize her passionate engagement with "naturecultures" as the
theoretical core driving her work. Chapters situate Haraway as
critic, theorist, biologist, feminist, historian, and humorist,
exploring the full range of her identities and reflecting her
commitment to embodying all of these modes simultaneously.
What counts as nature in the late twentieth century? How do we
create scientific disciplines and histories of science? How are the
issues of race and gender written into the ways we imagine the
natural world? Why do we study animals? These fundamental questions
are at the heart of primatology - the study of monkeys and apes -
in the twentieth century. In Primate Visions historians of biology
Donna Haraway builds the primate story - our scientific
understanding of apes, monkeys, and humans - and explains its
multi-cultural roots, its myths, its relation to gender and race.
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. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women tradition--establishing
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