With The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, Donna Haraway moves away from the figure of the cyborg (which made her famous) and toward the figure of the companion species--specifically, the dog. She attempts to do much the same thing with dogs that she did with cyborgs, saying:Cyborgs and companion species each ( Read more... )

In The Science Question in Feminism, Sandra Harding provides a clear and thorough background in various feminist theories and their relationship with the field of science and, more importantly, makes a convincing argument that science must be interrogated by feminism just as the rest of our culture must be in order to create a more equitable and ( Read more... )

Reading this book immediately following hooks' first book, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism reveals how much a writer and theorist can develop in just a few years. Where Ain't I a Woman suffered because of underdeveloped points and undertheorized intersections of class with race and gender, Feminist Theory from Margin to Center shines. ( Read more... )

Angela Y. Davis's Women, Race and Class (1983) is one of the best histories of the feminist movement I've ever read. Most such histories have limited their scope to a particular issue (e.g., reproductive rights, suffrage, housework) and to a particular constituency (women of a particular race or class), but Davis masterfully brings together issues ( Read more... )

Carolyn Merchant's The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution was quite simply not what I expected ( Read more... )