| Description |
x, 287 pages, 11 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-276) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Sociobiology.
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Feminist criticism.
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Primates -- Behavior.
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Human behavior.
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| ISBN |
0415903866 |
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0415903874 paperback |
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