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Primate visions : gender, race, and nature in the world of modern science

Haraway, Donna Jeanne
New York : Routledge, 1989

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

Bibliographic Information


Format: Book
Author: Haraway, Donna Jeanne
Subject: Primates
Feminist criticism
Sociobiology
Human biology
Research
Sociology
Publication Year:1989
Language:English
Published:New York : Routledge, 1989
ISBN:9780415902946
0415902940
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 432-472) and index
Primate colonies and the extraction of value -- Teddy bear patriarchy : taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-36 -- Pilot plant for human engineering : Robert Yerkes and the Yale Laboratories of Primate Biology, 1924-42 -- Semiotics of the naturalistic field : from C.R. Carpenter to S.A. Altmann, 1930-55 -- Re-instituting western primatology after World War II -- Apes in Eden, apes in space : mothering as a scientist for National Geographic -- Remodeling the human way of life : Sherwood Washburn and the new physical anthropology, 1950-1980 -- Metaphors into hardware : Harry Harlow and the technology of love -- Bio-politics of a multicultural field -- Women's place is in the jungle -- Jeanne Altmann : time-energy budgets of dual career mothering -- Linda Maria Fedigan : models for interventions
Adrienne Zihlman : the paleoanthropology of sex and gender -- Sarah Blaffer Hrdy : investment strategies for the evolving portfolio of primate females -- Reprise : science fiction, fictions of science, and primatology
Course: GEC205

Availability at HKSYU Library


Location Call number Status
English Book (4/F) 599.8072 HAR 1989 Available