Primate visions : gender, race, and nature in the world of modern science | WorldCat.org

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Introduction: The persistence of vision

Part 1: Monkeys and monopoly capitalism : primatology before World War II. Primate colonies and the extraction of value ; Teddy bear patriarchy : taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-36 ; A pilot plant for human engineering : Robert Yerkes and the Yale Laboratories of Primate Biology, 1924-42 ; A semiotics of the naturalistic field : from C.R. Carpenter to S.A. Altmann, 1930-55

Part 2: Decolonization and multinational primatology. Re-instituting western primatology after World War II ; Apes in Eden, apes in space : mothering as a scientist for National Geographic ; Remodeling the human way of life : Sherwood Washburn and the new physical anthropology, 1950-1980 ; Metaphors into hardware : Harry Harlow and the technology of love ; The bio-politics of a multicultural field

Part 3: The politics of being female : primatology is a genre of feminist theory. Women's place is in the jungle ; Jeanne Altmann : time-energy budgets of dual career mothering ; Linda Maria Fedigan : models for interventions ; Adrienne Zihlman : the paleoanthropology of sex and gender ; Sarah Blaffer Hrdy : investment strategies for the evolving portfolio of primate females ; Reprise : science fiction, fictions of science, and primatology

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