"...a conversation with Haraway is an experience you don't soon forget." --
Santa Cruz County Sentinel"...a mixture of passionate polemic, abtruse theory and technological musing." --
Detroit Free Press"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." --
Laura Briggs, SojournerDonna 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 Francisco Examiner 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. --
American AnthropologistA useful and provocative attempt to expose and retell core narratives in science. . . --
Journal of the History of BiologyDonna Haraway writes about science like nobody else. Shes exploring new territory, shes drawing new maps, shes onto something--the metaphors come thick and fast. Love her or loathe her, you ignore her at your peril. --
New ScientistHaraways 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 dont soon forget. --
Santa Cruz County SentinelIt can change the way you think. --
San Francisco Examiner 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. --
American AnthropologistA useful and provocative attempt to expose and retell core narratives in science. . . --
Journal of the History of BiologyThe title may prove a filing challenge, as it uses an Internet address; but Haraway presents a fine and varied probe into connections between feminism and science, examining reproductive freedom, biological approaches to race, and other issues which can contribute to a feminist, multicultural study of technoscience. College-level readers will find it different, and fascinating. --
Midwest Book Review
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.