Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science.

Margaret W. Rossiter; Donna Haraway

doi:10.2307/2079298

September 1, 1990Journal of American History

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Examine how social constructions of gender, race, and colonial power have shaped the history of modern primatology and scientific understandings of nature.
Historical, textual, and cultural analysis of twentieth-century primatological field studies, laboratory research, and popular scientific representations.
Evaluation of scientific institutions and biographical trajectories of prominent researchers in evolutionary anthropology.
Reveals that scientific narratives regarding nonhuman primates routinely reflect Western political, racial, and patriarchal hierarchies rather than purely objective observations.
Documents the emergence of feminist primatology, which challenged male-dominated models of dominance and illuminated the social complexity and active agency of female primates.

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Critical review examines ideological frameworks in modern primatology, highlighting how cultural constructs shape biological theories of human evolution.

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Journal Article Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. By Donna Haraway. (Newark: Routledge, 1989. x + 486 pp. $35.00.) Get access Margaret W. Rossiter Margaret W. Rossiter Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Pages 712–713, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079298 Published: 01 September 1990

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