Self-study
P1
Donna Haraway's Primate Visions is the most ambitious book on the history of science yet written from a feminist perspective, embracing not only the scientific construction of gender but also the interplay of race, class, and colonial and postcolonial culture with the "Western" construction of the very concept of nature itself. ███████████ ██ █ ████████████ ███ ███████ ███ ████ ██████ ███████ ████████ ████ ██ ████ ████ █████████ ████ ████ ███████ █████ ████████ ███ ███████████ █████████ ███ ███████████ ███████████ ██ █████ ███████ █████ ██████ ███ ████████
Intro topic ·
Haraway's book, Primate Visions
Book on history of science written from a feminist perspective. Deals with gender, race, class, colonial stuff, and "Western" concept of nature. Book involves primatology, which the author thinks is a good subject for studying beliefs about nature and culture.
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Important feature of book ·
Challenges traditional separation between people and nature/history
Haraway's approach recognizes that nature participates in humans' creation of knowledge about nature. In other words, nature isn't just something subject to human control.
Additional important feature ·
There are only multiple, interlinked, partial realities
There isn't just one coherent reality or truth.
P3
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Haraway's style ·
Fragmented approach to historiography that reflects the idea of multiple perspectives
This approach is different from traditional history books, which focus on narrative or on narrative with an emphasis on causation.
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Haraway's content ·
Mixes in broad cultural issues
She discusses science fiction, movies, TV, and comments on stuff like nuclear war. This approach ignores the distinction between things that are part of science and things that aren't.
Passage Style
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Spotlight
18.
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The answer presents the closest thing to a coherent narrative involving causation (circumstances that led to her discovery of radium). So it’s the best example of “traditional history.”
b
a television series ████ ██████████ ███ ███████████ ██████████ █████ █████ ████ ██ ███ █████████████ ███████
“Dramatization” suggests exaggeration, which we have no reason to think is part of “traditional history.” Also, we have no reason to think “traditional history” involves predictions about the future.
c
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A series of conversations doesn’t sound like a narrative of events.
d
a newspaper editorial ███████ ██ █ █████████ ██████ ██ ██████ ██████ ███████ ███ █ ███████ ███████ ██ █████████ ███ █████████ ████████ ██ ██ ██████ ████ ██
An editorial detailing the benefits of a project doesn’t sound like a narrative of events.
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Detailed math notes doesn’t sound like a narrative of events.