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Book SynopsisThe Haraway Reader brings together a generous selection of Donna Haraway's work, she is one of our keenest observers of nature, science, and the social world and this volume is ideal introduction to her thought.
Trade Review"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
Table of ContentsContents 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
