Simians, cyborgs, and women : the reinvention of nature / Donna J. Haraway.

New York : Routledge, 1991.

x, 287 pages, 11 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-276) and index.

Animal sociology and a natural economy of the body politic: a political physiology of dominance -- The past is the contested zone: human nature and theories of production and reproduction in primate behaviour studies -- The biological enterprise: sex, mind, and profit from human engineering to sociobiology -- In the beginning was the word: the genesis of biological theory -- The contest for primate nature: daughters of man-the-hunter in the field, 1960-80 -- Reading Buchi Emecheta: contests for 'women's experience' in women's studies -- 'Gender' for a Marxist dictionary: the sexual politics of a word -- A cyborg manifesto: science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century -- Situated knowledges: the science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective -- The biopolitics of postmodern bodies: constitutions of self in immune system discourse.