Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience
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 ScientistHaraway'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. --LSojournerA mixture of passionate polemic, abtruse theory, and technological musing. --Detroit Free PressA conversation with Haraway is an experience you don't soon forget. --Santa Cruz County SentinelIt can change the way you think. --San FranciscoExaminer and ChronicleA richness of insight, challenge, wit, and intelligence that will raise the level of discourse in anthropology, should we have the wit to respond. --AmericanAnthropologistA useful and provocative attempt to expose and retell core narratives in science. . . --Journal of theHistory of Biology