A Women's Place in the Jungle' Notes

Haraway, D.J., 2013. Primate visions: Gender, race, and nature in the world of modern science. Routledge.

How did gender hierarchy fathom?

“The politics of being female: are at the origin of western order’ [p.280]

What was the male opinion on mothering?

‘Maternity is inherently conservative and requires husbanding to become truly fruitful, to move from animal to human’ [p.282]

How does the patriarchy maintain power imbalances and perpetuate gender inequalities?

‘These are the qualities essential to the male-domain, “monogamous” heterosexual family, names “the family” with mind-numbing regularity. Lucys bones were incinerated into a scientific fetish fantasy’ [p.282].

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