Primate Visions
Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 22 August 1990
- ISBN 9780415902946
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages496 pages
- Size 254x178 mm
- Weight 920 g
- Language English 10
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First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Haraway's discussions of how scientists have perceived the sexual nature of female primates opens a new chapter in feminist theory, raising unsettling questions about models of the family and of heterosexuality in primate research.
". . . Haraway's take on the many strands of contemporary feminism is refreshingly acute. . . . Primate Visions is a genuine tour de force, uniquely combining intellectual history and the sociology of knowledge. It contains enough sheer insight and represents enough hard historical digging to fuel several scholarly careers. We leave the text genuinely enlightened on the changing boundaries between nature and culture, and on our own historical trafficking in these myriad forms of otherness." -- The Nation
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Persistence of Vision; Part 1 Monkeys and Monopoly Capitalism: Primatology Before World War II; Chapter 2 Primate Colonies and the Extraction of Value; Chapter 3 Teddy Bear Patriarchy Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908–1936; Chapter 4 A Pilot Plant for Human Engineering: Robert Yerkes and the Yale Laboratories of Primate Biology,1924–1942; Chapter 5 A Semiotics of the Naturalistic Field: From C.R. Carpenter to S.A. Altmann 1930–1955; Part 2 Decolonization and Multinational Primatology; Chapter 6 Re-Instituting Western Primatology after World War II; Chapter 7 Apes in Eden, Apes in Space: Mothering as a Scientist for National Geographic; Chapter 8 Remodeling the Human Way of Life: Sherwood Washburn and the New Physical Anthropology, 1950–1980; Chapter 9 Metaphors into Hardware: Harry Harlow and the Technology of Love; Chapter 10 The Bio-politics of a Multicultural Field; Part 3 Women's Place is in the Jungle; Chapter 11 Women's Place is in the Jungle; Chapter 12 Jeanne Altmann: Time-Energy Budgets of Dual Career Mothering; Chapter 13 Linda Marie Fedigan: Models for Intervention; Chapter 14 Adrienne Zihlman: The Paleoanthropology of Sex and Gender; Chapter 15 Sarah Blaffer Hrdy: Investment Strategies for the Evolving Portfolio of Primate Females; Chapter 16 Reprise: Science Fiction, Fictions of Science, and Primatology; Mira's Morning Song; Notes; Sources; Index;
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