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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.

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...

Since the appearance of Primate Visions and the 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 a highly regarded theorist. She is admired for her passion and rigor, her wicked ironies, and her commitment to issues of gender and race, as well as species. The author of this book presents a conversation with Haraway about intellectual development, theories and influences, the role of Catholicism in her thinking, and how her ethical stands have mirrored...