Simians, Cyborgs and Women is a powerful collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989. Although on the surface, simians, cyborgs and women may seem an odd threesome, Haraway describes their profound link as "creatures" which have had a great destabilizing place in Western evolutionary technology and biology. Throughout this book, Haraway analyzes accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs. At once a social reality and a science fiction, the cyborg--a hybrid of organism and machine--represents transgressed boundaries and intense fusions of the nature/culture split. By providing an escape from rigid dualisms, the cyborg exists in a post-gender world, and as such holds immense possibilities for modern feminists. Haraway's recent book, Primate Visions, has been called "outstanding," "original," and "brilliant," by leading scholars in the field. (First published in 1991.)

Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature

We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.

The archaeology of knowledge

Since critics first allegedthat feminism claimed tospeak universally for all
women, feminist researchers havebeen acutely aware ofthe limitations of 
genderas a single analyticalcategory. In fact, feministsare perhaps alone in
the academy in theextent to which theyhave embraced intersectionality – the 
relationshipsamong multiple dimensions andmodalities of social relations
and subject formations – as itselfa central category ofanalysis. One could 
evensay that intersectionality isthe most important theoreticalcontribution 
that women’s studies,in conjunction with relatedfields, has made sofar.1

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The Complexity of Intersectionality

Evolutionary psychology is one of many biologically informed approaches to the study of human behavior. Along with cognitive psychologists, evolutionary psychologists propose that much, if not all, of our behavior can be explained by appeal to internal psychological mechanisms. What distinguishes evolutionary psychologists from many cognitive psychologists is the proposal that the relevant internal mechanisms are adaptations—products of natural selection—that helped our ancestors get around the world, survive and reproduce. To understand the central claims of evolutionary psychology we require an understanding of some key concepts in evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, philosophy of science and philosophy of mind. Philosophers are interested in evolutionary psychology for a number of reasons. For philosophers of science —mostly philosophers of biology—evolutionary psychology provides a critical target. There is a broad consensus among philosophers of science that evolutionary psychology is a deeply flawed enterprise. For philosophers of mind and cognitive science evolutionary psychology has been a source of empirical hypotheses about cognitive architecture and specific components of that architecture. Philosophers of mind are also critical of evolutionary psychology but their criticisms are not as all-encompassing as those presented by philosophers of biology. Evolutionary psychology is also invoked by philosophers interested in moral psychology both as a source of empirical hypotheses and as a critical target.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

It ought to be of some political significance at least that the term 'colonization' has come to denote a variety of phenomena in recent feminist and left writings in general. From its analytic value as a category of exploitative economic exchange in both traditional and contemporary Marxisms (cf. particularly such contemporary scholars as Baran, Amin and Gunder-Frank) to its use by feminist women of colour in the US, to describe the appropriation of their experiences and struggles by hegemonic white women's movements,' the term 'colonization' has been used to characterize everything from the most evident economic and political hierarchies to the production of a particular cultural discourse about what is called the 'Third World.'2 However sophisticated or problematical its use as an explanatory construct, colonization almost invariably implies a relation of structural domination, and a discursive or political suppression of the heterogeneity of the subject(s) in question. What I wish to analyse here specifically is the production of the 'Third World Woman' as a singular monolithic subject in some recent (western) feminist texts. The definition of colonization I invoke is a predominantly discursive one, focusing on a certain mode of appropriation and codification of 'scholarship' and 'knowledge' about women in the third world by particular analytic categories employed in writings on the subject which take as their primary point of reference feminist interests as they have been articulated in the US and western Europe. My concern about such writings derives from my own implication and investment in contemporary debates in feminist theory, and the urgent political necessity of forming strategic coalitions across class, race and national boundaries. Clearly, western feminist discourse and political practice is neither singular nor homogeneous in its goals, interests or analyses. However, it is possible to trace a coherence of

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Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses

Qu’est-il arrive a la recherche et a la theorie feministe dans notre culture universitaire neoliberale ? Les transformations globales et nationales dans l’activisme du mouvement social et les projets de recherche feministe ont-ils depolitise les projets intellectuels feministes, antiracistes, femmes-de-couleur et transnationaux ? J’examine ici les diverses facons dont mon propre travail a voyage et ce qu’il a perdu (et trouve) en etant traduit dans differents contextes, pour offrir quelques r...

Traversés féministes transnationales : du néolibéralisme et de la critique radicale

This book presents a uniquely interesting collection of articles spanning a divergent range of political, economic and social realities and experiences, all of which comprise "third world" feminisms. The uniqueness of the collection derives from the fact that the authors have done more than noting and exploring "common differences" to affirm their solidarity in spite of these differences. In fact, Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism has located feminism in a global, cross - cultural context and, in so doing, defines this international contextualization as the only approach which allows for moving beyond women's "common differences" to really working together.In 14 essays, each with an extensive bibliography, contributors to Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism examine the implications and effects of slavery, colonialism, international labour migration, transnational corporate capitalism and the many manifestations of imperialism on women in both the advanced capitalist countries of the "first world" and the dependent capitalist countries of Asia, the Caribbean, Australasia, Africa and Latin America. The eloquent and theoretically sophisticated voices of third world feminists like Rey Chow, Angela Gilliam, Faye Harrison, Jacqui Alexander, Nayereh Tohidi, Barbara Smith and Lourdes Torres are supplemented by Chandra Mohanty's richly theoretical and lucid introductory essay which brings the articles together into a solid, coherent whole. Mohanty deconstructs the categories of "third world," "race," "woman," and "feminism" to give the reader an appreciation of the complex nature of these categories as they intersect with sexuality. She makes it clear that for third world women, whether in the advanced capitalist or developing world, oppressions are interrelated, not hierarchically situated. Mohanty explicates why, unlike Western feminists, third world feminists cannot pursue gender equality in isolation of the wide range of issues affecting their lives on a national and international scale. For third world women, while the "personal is political," the reverse is also true.In terms of the political being personal, women and men experience the same dehumanizing elements of poverty, unemployment and racism as domination and exploitation, though gender results in a differential experience of these oppressions. For the authors in this collection, thesource of these oppressions takes precedence over their manifestations. …

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European Women and the Second British Empire. Margaret StrobelWaging Change: Women Tobacco Workers in Nipani Organise. Chhaya Datar

This essay grows out of a presentation on a panel called “Lost in Translation” at the Critical Race Studies conference in 2010. It is a reflection on the neoliberal knowledge economy, the traffic in antiracist feminist theory, and the way my work has been read (lost or found in translation) and has crossed geopolitical and racial/cultural borders. The essay comments as well on the development of my intellectual project in relation to my location in the US academy and the intellectual and political communities that have made the work possible. The larger frame I seek to examine using responses to my work in three sites—Sweden, Mexico, and Palestine—is the way feminist, postcolonial, and antiracist theory emerges from a particular geopolitical, intellectual space; the way it enacts crossings; and the way it is trafficked, consumed, and understood in different geographies. Given the global and domestic shifts in social movements and transnational feminist scholarly projects over the past three decade...

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Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Papers

Traversés féministes transnationales : du néolibéralisme et de la critique radicale

Third World Women & the Politics of Feminism // Review

European Women and the Second British Empire. Margaret StrobelWaging Change: Women Tobacco Workers in Nipani Organise. Chhaya Datar

Transnational Feminist Crossings: On Neoliberalism and Radical Critique