Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature

by Donna J. Haraway

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415903874
• ISBN13: 9780415903875
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Brilliancies.

Donna Haraway's work in this collection continues to amaze me. Her intense critical engagement with the history of science is resolutely brilliant: she takes common conceptions of the body, objectivity, power, and 'nature' and pulls the rug of patriarchal metaphysics out from under them. These essays are concerned with unravelling origins myths, pointing out the pitfalls of political innocence, deconstructing our conceptions of the natural and the artefactual--you know, the usual. Her project is immense, but the she hones her points in each essay very well with dazzlingly astute political analyses and characteristic poetic phrases. If you're interested in oppositional antiracist feminist consciousness, Haraway's yr philosopher.