Abstract
Donna J. Haraway’s <i>Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, Reinventing Nature as a Revolutionary Re–appropriation of Knowledge</i>
Highlights
How do simians, cyborgs, women, and the reinvention of nature, from the titled work by Donna J
Function in the conceptualization of her major argument, that “[s]cience is culture,” but that it must be contestable and often contested, in order to leave space for political affinities that empower women and others?i The concept of reinventing nature provides the first key to interpreting this collection of essays
That in the hands of scientists, objects from a scientifically produced category, nature, which includes society, can be and have been redesigned, “’in the image of a generally acceptable ideal.’”ii Introducing the possibility of nature’s re-invention by socialist-feminist scientists as a response to the “acceptable ideal,” becomes central to a set of powerful analyses by Haraway, which she uses to investigate the possibility of the female, or the other, being able to author her or its own existence
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Cyborgs, women, and the reinvention of nature, from the titled work by Donna J.
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