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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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This doesn’t capture the passage’s focus on Haraway’s book. The passage is almost entirely about Primate Visions — it’s not about primatology in general.

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This doesn’t capture the passage’s focus on Haraway’s book. The passage is almost entirely about arguments in, and style of, Primate Visions.

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This best captures the passage’s focus on Haraway’s book. It’s reasonable to characterize Primate Visions as a “proposal to reform the scientific approach to nature,” because the book advocates a different way of approaching nature and our relationship to it. And the passage discusses both the content (P2) and style (P3 and P4) of Primate Visions.

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Haraway’s book isn’t about “the history of women in science.” It’s a history of science written from a feminist perspective, but this doesn’t mean it’s a history of women in science. We have no reason to think it discusses women in science or their contributions.

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The passage is focused on Haraway’s book. It doesn’t discuss the effects of theoretical positions on various books on the history of science. The passage is entirely about Primate Visions.

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