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.
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.
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
Single position
Spotlight
20.
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Question Type
Purpose in context (of word, phrase, or idea)
Structure
To understand the purpose of the word “rhetoric,” let’s look at the point of the sentence containing the word. The author tells us that historians of science have spoken for decades about the need to unite issues deemed “internal” to science and those deemed “external” to it. But despite this, these historians haven’t actually unified these issues. “Rhetoric” in this context seems designed to emphasize that historians have science have only talked about unifying issues, but haven’t actually done so.
The point of the sentence that uses “rhetoric” doesn’t relate to the importance of clear, effective writing. It’s about how historians have talked about the need to unify “internal” issues (those seen as part of science) and “external” issues (those seen as outside of science), but have failed to actually unify these issues.
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The point of the sentence that uses “rhetoric” doesn’t relate to the need to study different modes of language. It’s about how historians have talked about the need to unify “internal” issues (those seen as part of science) and “external” issues (those seen as outside of science), but have failed to actually unify these issues.
This is the best answer. The author tells us that historians of science have spoken for decades about the need to unite issues deemed “internal” to science and those deemed “external” to it. But despite this, these historians haven’t actually unified these issues. “Rhetoric” in this context seems designed to emphasize that historians have science have only talked about unifying issues, but haven’t put their talk into practice.
The point of the sentence that uses “rhetoric” doesn’t relate to the concern for form over content. It’s about how historians have talked about the need to unify “internal” and “external” issues, but have failed to actually unify these issues. It’s not clear that the last paragraph even involves a distinction between form and content. The distinction discussed there is between different kinds of content — content seen as part of science and content seen as not part of science.
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The word “rhetoric” describes something about the historians of science; it’s not used to describe Haraway’s style and approach.
Difficulty
55% of people who answer get this correct
This is a very difficult question.
It is slightly harder than the average question in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%147
163
75%179
Analysis
Purpose in context (of word, phrase, or idea)
Structure
Science
Single position
Spotlight
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
2%
159
b
1%
158
c
55%
168
d
35%
164
e
7%
163
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