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To examine how conceptualizations of simians, cyborgs, and women destabilize historic dualisms between nature and culture in Western evolutionary biology and technology.

January 1, 1992Feminist Review

Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature

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MMMaureen McNeilInstitute for Women's Policy Research DHDonna HarawayUniversity of California, Santa Cruz

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Critical theoretical analysis uncovers how hybrid entities destabilize traditional dualisms in Western science, highlighting new pathways toward post-gender feminist frameworks.

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To examine how conceptualizations of simians, cyborgs, and women destabilize historic dualisms between nature and culture in Western evolutionary biology and technology.
Synthesized and evaluated critical theoretical frameworks across ten essays published between 1978 and 1989.
Analyzed historical narratives, scientific literature, and cultural accounts concerning primates, organic bodies, and human-machine systems.
Identified simians, cyborgs, and women as boundary-crossing entities that undermine Western scientific boundaries dividing organism from machine and nature from culture.
Demonstrated that the cyborg acts as a hybrid, post-gender model capable of dismantling restrictive patriarchal and biological dualisms in modern feminist theory.

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McNeil et al. (1992) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6960134b56d78987edb8d0d0 https://doi.org/10.2307/1395245

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Critical theoretical analysis uncovers how hybrid entities destabilize traditional dualisms in Western science, highlighting new pathways toward post-gender feminist frameworks.

Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature

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