The Haraway Reader / Edition 1

by Donna Haraway

Overview

The Haraway Reader brings together a generous selection of Donna Haraway's work, she is one of our keenest observers of nature, science, and the social world and this volume is ideal introduction to her thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415966894
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/16/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Donna Haraway is Professor of the History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She is the author of several books, including Primate Visions, Simians, Cyborgs and Women, Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan(c)_Meets_Oncou s and (with Thyrza Goodeve) How Like a Leaf, all published by Routledge. She lives in Santa Cruz, CA.

Table of Contents

Contents 1. A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s 2. Ecce Homo, Ain't (Ar'n't) I a Woman, and Inappropriate/d Others: the Human in a Posthumanist Landscape 3. The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others 4. Otherworldly Conversations; Terrain Topics; Local Terms 5. Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936 6. Morphing in the Order: Flexible Strategies, Feminist Science Studies, and Primate Revisions 7. Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium 8. from Race: Universal Donors in a Vampire Culture. It's All in the Family: Biological Kinship Categories in the Twentieth-Century United States 9. Cyborgs to Companion Species: Reconfiguring Kinship in Technoscience 10. Cyborgs, Coyotes, and Dogs: A Kinship of Feminist Figurations, an interview with Randi Markussen, Finn Olesen, and Nina Lykke

Editorial Reviews

"The vocabulary is exotic and the sentences deliberately structured to contain many layers of meaning. These intriguing essays will enhance any reader's understanding of feminist technoscience studies and will be welcomed in academic libraries." — Kathryn R. Bartelt, Univ. of Evansville Libs., IN

From the Publisher

Haraway (history of consciousness, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz; Primate Visions) is considered a leading feminist science theorist. All the essays included in this collection are drawn from her previously published work, dating from the mid-1980s ("A Manifesto for Cyborgs") to the present ("Cyborgs to Companion Species: Reconfiguring Kinship in Technoscience"), and serve to help readers understand her enormous contribution to the fields of feminist studies and the history of science and technology. As Haraway explains in the introduction, "All insist that science and feminism, anti-racism and science studies, biology and cultural theory, fiction and fact closely cohabit and should do so." The average reader will find these essays challenging. Haraway's ideas are complicated, and she does not seem interested in simplifying her arguments for the sake of broadening their appeal; the vocabulary is exotic and the sentences deliberately structured to contain many layers of meaning. On the other hand, these intriguing essays will enhance any reader's understanding of feminist technoscience studies and will be welcomed in academic libraries.-Kathryn R. Bartelt, Univ. of Evansville Libs., IN Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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