Simians, cyborgs, and women : the reinvention of nature

Donna J. Haraway

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 of the nature/culture split. By providing an escape from rigid dualisms, the cyborg exists in a post-gender world, and as such holds immense possibilities for modern feminists. Haraway's recent book, Primate Visions, has been called "outstanding," "original," and "brilliant," by leading scholars in the field. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women tradition--establishing

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書名 Simians, cyborgs, and women : the reinvention of nature
著作者等 Haraway, Donna Jeanne
Haraway Donna J.
出版元 Routledge
刊行年月 1991
ページ数 x, 287 p., 11 p. of plates
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0415903866
9780415903875
NCID BA24276859
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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