PrepTest 115 - Section 1 - Passage 3 - Question 17

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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.

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.

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To understand the “iconoclastic view,” look at the view described immediately before the beginning of P3: “Finally, she insists that the perspectives afforded by these different agents cannot be reduced to a single, coherent reality—there are necessarily only multiple, interlinked, partial realities.” The correct answer should involve Haraway’s view that there isn’t just a single reality; there are multiple realities.

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This describes Haraway’s view that there isn’t just a single reality. This view is the “iconoclastic” view. We know this because the “this” in “this iconoclastic view” must refer to the view described immediately before the phrase.

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Haraway doesn’t think that there’s a single, coherent reality. So it wouldn’t make sense for Harawy to believe there’s a unified, overarching “Story of Primatology.”

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This isn’t the iconoclastic view referred to at the beginning of P3, because (C) is presented at the beginning of P2. But the end of P2 gives us another view — the view that there are only multiple realities. This view is the referent of “this iconoclastic view.”

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“This iconoclastic view” refers to the view immediately preceding this phrase. That view is the view that there’s no single, coherent reality. (D) doesn’t describe the view that there’s no single, coherent reality, so it’s not correct.

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“This iconoclastic view” refers to the view immediately preceding this phrase. That view is the view that there’s no single, coherent reality. (E) doesn’t describe the view that there’s no single, coherent reality, so it’s not correct.

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