The Haraway Reader

ISBN-13: 9780415966887 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 360 str.

Donna Jeanne Haraway

Opis

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 provides an introduction to her thought.

Recenzje

"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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.