Modest Witness: Feminism and Technoscience

Modest Witness: Feminism and Technoscience

by Donna J . Haraway (Author)

Synopsis

Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium.FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse explores the roles of stories, figures, dreams, theories, facts, delusions, advertising, institutions, economic arrangements, publishing practices, scientific advances, and politics in twentieth-century technoscience. The book's title is an e-mail address. With it, Haraway locates herself and her readers in a sprawling net of associations more far-flung than the Internet. The address is not a cozy home. There is no innocent place to stand in the world where the book's author figure, FemaleMan, encounters DuPont's controversial laboratory rodent, OncoMouse.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 376
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 15 Jan 1997

ISBN 10: 0415912458
ISBN 13: 9780415912457

Media Reviews
Donna Haraway writes about science like nobody else. She's exploring new territory, she's drawing new maps, she's onto something--the metaphors come thick and fast. Love her or loathe her, you ignore her at your peril.
- New Scientist
Haraway's 'modest witness' is a fascinating figure....In a contribution that is by itself worth the price of the book, Haraway produces a wonderfully thoughtful and complex account of...the interpenetration of biology and capitalism, two central players on the stage of politics....Haraway has produced a volume that richly rewards the hard work and generous literacy it demands of its reader. It is challenging, powerful, and unsettling to comfortable notions worth distressing.
- LSojourner
A mixture of passionate polemic, abtruse theory, and technological musing.
- Detroit Free Press
A conversation with Haraway is an experience you don't soon forget.
- Santa Cruz County Sentinel
It can change the way you think.
- San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle