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Feminism and Science (Chap. 4 "Animal Sociology and a Natural Economy of the Body Politic, Part II: The Past Is the Contested Zone" by Donna Haraway)
by Evelyn Fox Keller, Helen E. Longino. 290 pgs.

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(Series copy) The new Oxford Readings in Feminism series maps the dramatic influence of feminist theory on every branch of academic knowledge. Offering feminist perspectives on disciplines from history to science, each book assembles the most important articles written on its field in the last ten to fifteen years. Old stereotypes are challenged and traditional attitudes upset in these lively-- and sometimes controversial--volumes, all of which are edited by feminists prominent in their particular field. Comprehensive, accessible, and intellectually daring, the Oxford Readings in Feminism series is vital reading for anyone interested in the effects of feminist ideas within the academy. Can science be gender-neutral? In recent years, feminist critics have raised troubling questions about the practice and goals of traditional science, demonstrating the existence of a pervasive bias in the ways in which scientists conduct and discuss their work. This exciting volume gathers seventeen essays--by sociologists, scientists, historians, and philosophers--of seminal significance in the emerging field of feminist science studies. Analyzing topics from the stereotype of the "Man of Reason" to the "romantic" language of reproductive biology, these fascinating essays challenge readers to take a fresh look at the limitations--and possibilities--of scientific knowledge.

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Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

References

Part I. Early Statements

1: Women's Perspective as a Radical Critique of Sociology

2: Feminism and Science

3: Reason, Science and the Domination of Matter

Part Ii. Representations of Sex and Gender

4: Animal Sociology and a Natural Economy of the Body Politic, Part Ii: The Past is the Contested Zone

5: Body, Bias, and Behaviour: A Comparative Analysis of Reasoning in Two Areas of Biological Science

Conclusion

Notes

6: Pre-Theoretical Assumptions in Evolutionary Explanations of Female Sexuality

7: The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles

Part Iii. Language, Gender, and Science

8: Race and Gender: The Role of Analogy in Science

Notes

9: Why Mammals Are Called Mammals: Gender Politics in Eighteenth-Century Natural History

10: Language and Ideology in Evolutionary Theory: Reading Cultural Norms into Natural Law

References

11: Nuclear Language and How We Learned to Pat the Bomb

Part Iv. Gender and Knowledge

12: The Mind's Eye Evelyn Fox Keller and Christine R. Grontkowski

13: Though This Be Method, Yet There is Madness in It: Paranoia and Liberal Epistemology

A Science of Mars or of Venus?

15: Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology: What is 'strong Objectivity'?

16: Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective

17: Subjects, Power, and Knowledge: Description and Prescription in Feminist Philosophies of Science

Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classic Readings ("The Cyborg Manifesto and Fractured Identities: Donna Haraway" begins on p. 539)
by Charles Lemert. 674 pgs.

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"A rich, highly textured, historically sweeping, & strikingly inclusive collection that aims to reconstruct, perhaps for the first time, the actual dialogue of contemporary social thought." Jeffrey Alexander University of California at Los Angeles "Charles Lemert captures the surfacing of multiple theoretical voices in the postmodern era. No theory course should be without Social Theory." Steve Seidman State University of New York at Albany

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Introduction Social Theory

Part One: Modernity's Classical Age: 1848-1919

The Two Sides of Society

Estranged Labour

Camera Obscura

Class Struggle

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

On Imperialism in India

The Values of Commodities

The Fetishism of Commodities

Labour-Power and Capital

The Patriarchal Family

Anomie and the Modern Division of Labor

Sociology and Social Facts

Suicide and Modernity

Primitive Classifications and Social Knowledge

The Cultural Logic of Collective Representations

The Spirit of Capitalism and the Iron Cage

The Bureaucratic Machine

What Is Politics?

The Types of Legitimate Domination

Class, Status, Party

The Psychical Apparatus and the Theory of Instincts

Dream-Work and Interpretation

Oedipus, the Child

Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through

The Return of the Repressed in Social Life

Civilization and the Individual

Arbitrary Social Values and the Linguistic Sign

The Self and Its Selves

Split Lives in the Modern World

Double-Consciousness and the Veil

The Spirit of Modern Europe

The Yellow Wallpaper

Women and Economics

The Colored Woman's Office

The Stranger

The Looking-Glass Self

Part Two: Social Theories and World Conflict: 1919-1945

Action, Knowledge, Self

The New Liberalism

The Irrational Chasm Between Subject and Object

The Unit Act of Action Systems

What Is to Be Done?

The Sociology of Knowledge and Ideology

Psychoanalysis and Sociology

The Self, the I, and the Me

Social Structure and Anomie

Unavoidable Dilemmas

Moral Man and Immoral Society

The Negro Problem as a Moral Issue

Disorganization of the Polish Immigrant

Personality and Status Within the Gang

Art, War, and Fascism

A Room of One's Own

Intellectuals and Hegemony

Nonviolent Force: A Spiritual Dilemma

Identity, Struggle, Contradiction

The Japanese and the Americans

Part Three: The Golden Moment: 1945-1963

The Golden Age

On the United States and Containment of the Soviets

The End of Ideology in the West

Modernization: Stages of Growth

Action Systems and Social Systems

Sex Roles in the American Kinship System

Manifest and Latent Functions

The Structural Study of Myth

Semiological Prospects

Why Theory?

Doubts and Reservations

Character and Society: The Other-directed Personality

Youth and American Identity

On Face-Work

The Eccentric Self and the Discourse of the Other

Others Object

Woman as Other

Between Colonizer and Colonized

The Power of Nonviolent Action

The Sociological Imagination

Participatory Democracy (from The Port Huron Statement)

The Problem That Has No Name

Decolonizing, National Culture, and the Negro Intellectual

Part Four: Will the Center Hold? 1963-1979

Experiments at Renewal and Reconstruction

Change and the Planning System

Emancipatory Knowledge

Society as a Human Product

Knowing a Society from Within: A Woman's Standpoint

The Modern World-System

The State as a Janus-faced Structure

Breaking with Modernity

Toward a Reflexive Sociology

Repressive Desublimation

Reflexive Properties of Practical Sociology

Structures, Habitus, Practices

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Part Five: After Modernity, Since 1979

The Idea of the Postmodern

Whither Postmodernism?

The Postmodern Condition

Simulacra and Simulations: Disneyland

Reactions and Alternatives

Post-Modernity or Radicalized Modernity?

Radical Democracy: Alternative for a New Left

Foucault on Power: A Theory for Women?

The Afrocentric Idea

Postpositivist Case for the Classics

The New Social Structure and the New Social Science

E Pluribus Unum?

After Modernity

The New Cultural Politics of Difference

"Race" as the Trope of the World

The Cyborg Manifesto and Fractured Identities

Infinite Layers/Third World?

Can the Subaltern Speak?

Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination

The New Mestiza

Sexual Identification Is a Strange Thing

Imitation and Gender Insubordination

Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism

The End of the Modern Era

Part Six: Searching for the Millennium

Future Social Science and the Invisible Elbow

Rethinking the Globalizing World

The Information Age

The Global Network

The City in a Globalizing World

The Global, the Local, and the Return of Ethnicity

The New Social Formations

Cultural Criticism and Telecommunications

Working Women in the Time Bind

The Productivity of the Closet

The Courage to Stand Alone

Final Notes: Where Does Reading End?

Acknowledgments/1999 Edition

Index
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Culture, Society and Sexuality: A Reader (Chap. 6 "'Gender' for a Marxist Dictionary: The Sexual Politics of a Word" by Donna J. Haraway)
by Peter Aggleton, Richard Parker. 486 pgs.

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This work offers an introduction to the central debates in sexuality research. Among the issues examined are the social and cultural dimensions of sex, human sexuality and sex research.

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Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Editors' Note

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

References

Part 1: Conceptual Frameworks

Chapter 2: Sexual Matters: on Conceptualizing Sexuality in History

Chapter 3: Sexual Scripts

Chapter 4: Anthropology Rediscovers Sexuality: a Theoretical Comment

Part 2: Gender and Power

Chapter 5: Gender as a Useful Category of Historical Analysis

Chapter 6: 'Gender' for a Marxist Dictionary: the Sexual Politics of a Word

Chapter 7: ‘That We Should All Turn Queer?’: Homosexual Stigma in the Making of Manhood and the Breaking of a Revolution in Nicaragua

Part 3: From Gender to Sexuality

Chapter 8: Discourse, Desire and Sexual Deviance: Some Problems in a History of Homosexuality

Chapter 9: Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality

Notes

Chapter 10: 'The Unclean Motion of the Generative Parts': Frameworks in Western Thought on Sexuality

Part 4: Sexual Identities/Sexual Communities

Chapter 11: Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

Chapter 12: The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role

Notes

Chapter 13: Capitalism and Gay Identity

References

Part 5: Sexual Classifications

Chapter 14: 'Within Four Walls': Brazilian Sexual Culture and HIV/AIDS

Chapter 15: Silences: 'Hispanics', Aids, and Sexual Practices

Chapter 16: Hiv, Heroin and Heterosexual Relations

Part 6: Sexual Meanings and Hiv/Aids Prevention

Chapter 17: Prostitution Viewed Cross-Culturally: Toward Recontextualizing Sex Work in Aids Intervention Research

Chapter 18: Sexual Diversity, Cultural Analysis, and Aids Education in Brazil

Chapter 19: Sexuality, Identity and Community: the Experience of Mesmac

Part 7: Sexual Representations and the Politics of Aids

Chapter 20: Aids, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: an Epidemic of Signification

Chapter 21: Inventing 'African Aids'

Chapter 22: Safer Sex as Community Practice

Part 8: Methodological Approaches

Chapter 23: Sexual Culture, Hiv Transmission, and Aids Research

References

Chapter 24: Mapping Terra Incognita: Sex Research for Aids Prevention - an Urgent Agenda for the 1990s

References

Chapter 25: Feminist Methodology and Young People's Sexuality

Author/Subject Index
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Philosophies of Science/Feminist Theories ("The Work of Haraway" begins on p. 94)
by Jane Duran. 206 pgs.

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This book presents the current feminist critique of science & the philosophy of science in such a way that students of philosophy of science, philosophers, feminist theorists, & scientists will find the material accessible & intellectually rigorous. Contemporary feminist debate, as well as the debate brought on by the radical critics of science, assumes-incorrectly-that certain movements in philosophy of science & science-driven theory are understood in their dynamics as well as in their details. All too often, labels such as "Kuhnian" or "positivistic" are taken for granted, & much of the contemporary post-modern or post-structuralist feminist theory that sets out to criticize science does little to alleviate the reader's lack of knowledge with regard to such movements. Unlike other texts, Philosophies of Science: Feminist Theories provides a student-oriented framework so that, for example, positivism is given a thorough grounding before the feminist critique of such epistemological theory is given. Other movements discussed include the Kuhnian turn, sociology of science, & the radical critique of science. Feminist theory & critique are interwoven throughout, with one chapter devoted to feminist thought, which includes the work of such thinkers as Longino, Hararway, Hubbard, Nelson, Harding, & Keller. Contents: Introduction. A Historical Overview of Positivism. A Look at Positivism Continued. Kuhnian & Like Responses. Philosophy of Science & Sociology of Science. Feminist Philosophy of Science. Radical Critiques of Science. Naturalized Epistemology as the Basis for a New Philosophy of Scientific Confirmation. Conclusion.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Part One The Growth of Philosophy of Science

1 Philosophy of Science: An Overview

2 Positivism And The Vienna Circle

3 Positivist Influences

Part Two The New Moves in Science Studies

5 Philosophy/ Sociology Of Science

6 The Advent Of Feminist Theory

Part Three Extensions of Philosophy of Science

7 The Radical Critique Of Science

8 Naturalizing Scientific Justification

Part Four Conclusion

9 Concluding Comments

Notes

Index
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Cyborg and Ecofeminist Interventions: Challenges for an Environmental Feminism, in Feminist Studies
by Stacy Alaimo. 20 pgs.

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We Are Borg: Cyborgs and the Subject of Communication, in Communication Theory
by David Gunkel. 26 pgs.

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Subjectivity: Theories of the Self from Freud to Haraway ("Haraway and the Cyborg" begins on p. 158)
by Nick Mansfield. 198 pgs.

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Exploration of the Western concern with self and our own subjectivity. Traces the development of our notions of subjectivity over the past century, analysing the work of theorists such as Freud, Foucault, Nietsche and Lacan. Locates subjectivity within contemporary cultural debates about gender, sexuality, ethnicity, postmodernism and technology. Author is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University. Previous publications include 'Cultural Studies and the New Humanities'.

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Subjectivity: Theories of the Self from Freud to Haraway

Series Introduction

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

1: The Free and Autonomous Individual

2: Freud and the Split Subject

3: Lacan: The Subject is Language

4: Foucault: The Subject and Power

5: Femininity: From Female Imaginary to Performativity

6: Kristeva and Abjection: Subjectivity as a Process

7: Masculinity: Saving the Post-Oedipal World

8: Radical Sexuality: From Perverse to Queer

9: Subjectivity and Ethnicity: Otherness, Policy, Visibility, Colonialism

10: Deleuze and Guattari: Rhizomatics

11: The Subject and Technology

12: The Subject and Postmodernism

13: Conclusion

Glossary

Bibliography

Index
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Risk and Technological Culture: Towards a Sociology of Virulence ("Politics, Embodiment and Technoculture: Diffractions of Donna Haraway" begins on p. 66)
by Joost van Loon. 238 pgs.

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The question as to whether we are now entering a risk society has become a key debate in contemporary social theory. Risk and Technological Culture presents a critical discussion of the main theories of risk from Ulrich Becks foundational work to that of his contemporaries such as Anthony Giddens and Scott Lash and assesses the extent to which risk has impacted on modern societies. In this discussion van Loon demonstrates how new technologies are transforming the character of risk and examines the relationship between technological culture and society through substantive chapters on topics such as waste, emerging viruses, communication technologies and urban disorders. In so doing this innovative new book extends the debate to encompass theorists such as Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Jean-François Lyotard.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

1: Introduction

Part I: Theoretical Framework

2: Cultivating Risks

3: Enrolling Risks in Technocultural Practices

4: Assemblages and Deviations

5: A Theoretical Framework

Part II: The Four Riders of the Apocalypse

6: Cultivating Waste

7: Emergent Pathogen Virulence

8: Cyberrisks

9: Race, Riots and Risk

10: Conclusion

References

Index
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Impossible Dreams: Rationality, Integrity, and Moral Imagination ("Haraway's Radical Nominalism" begins on p. 135)
by Susan E. Babbitt. 242 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Myths, Fantasies, and Realism: The Story of Sethe

2: Transformation Experiences And Rational Deliberation

3: Objective Interests, Non Propositional Knowledge, And Conversion Experiences

4: Leading Life from the Inside: Individuals, Minority Rights, And Some Problems About Indeterminacy

5: Ersonal Integrity, Politics, And Moral Imagination

6: Feminists and Nature: A Defense of Essentialism?

7: Reason and the Erotic: The Moral Significance Of Personal Relations And Commitments

8: Philosophy and Literature: Recalling the Archangel

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

About the Book and Author

Index
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Political Theory for Mortals: Shades of Justice, Images of Death (Discussion of Donna Haraway begins on p. 124)
by John E. Seery. 232 pgs.

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Chapter One: The Academy

Chapter Two: The Cave

Chapter Three: The Tomb

Chapter Four: The Womb

Chapter Five: The Agora

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index
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Troubled Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernism, Medical Ethics, and the Body ("Donna Haraway: Cyborg Life, Cyborg Consciousness" begins on p. 152)
by Paul A. Komesaroff. 250 pgs.

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Introduction: Postmodern Medical Ethics?

Divide and Multiply: Culture and Politics in the New Medical Order

Abortion and Embodiment

From Bioethics to Microethics: Ethical Debate and Clinical Medicine

Science, Medicine, and Illness: Rediscovering the Patient as a Person

The Body Politic

Whose Body? Feminist Views on Reproductive Technology

Making Babies, Making Sense: Reproductive Technologies, Postmodernity, and the Ambiguities of Feminism

Bodies and Subjects: Medical Ethics and Feminism

The Body Biomedical Ethics Forgets

Female Bodies and Food: a Case of Ethics and Psychiatry

Glossary

Index

Notes on Contributors

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