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Cosmodolphins : feminist cultural studies of technology, animals, and the sacred
- Title
- Cosmodolphins : feminist cultural studies of technology, animals, and the sacred / Mette Marie Bryld and Nina Lykke.
- Author
- Bryld, Mette.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, ©2000.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Lykke, Nina.
- Description
- 245 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Applying recent thinking on gender and the environment to original research in science and technology, this unique book explores postcolonial relationships with 'the wild' using the US and Russia as examples. The authors analyse contemporary categorizations of 'human self' versus 'wild other' through three twentieth century icons that best illustrate ambivalent ideas about self and other: spaceships, horoscopes and dolphins." "Theoretically innovative, this book represents an alternative approach to ecofeminist themes linking them up with studies of new technocultures and cyborgs. It forms an excellent exemplar of feminist cultural studies."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Feminist theory
- Nature > Effect of human beings on
- Human-animal relationships
- Dolphins > Research > Social aspects
- Astrology > Social aspects
- Science > Social aspects
- Théorie féministe
- Êtres humains > Influence sur la nature
- Relations homme-animal
- Dauphins > Recherche > Aspect social
- Astrologie > Aspect social
- Sciences > Aspect social
- Discoveries in geography > Social aspects
- Feminist theory
- Human-animal relationships
- Nature > Effect of human beings on
- Science > Social aspects
- Delfin
- Feminismus
- Kultur
- Mensch
- Natur
- Raumfahrt
- Siedlung
- Weltraum
- Ecofeminisme
- Mens en natuur
- Mens-dier-relatie
- Technologie
- Outer space > Exploration > Social aspects
- Espace extra-atmosphérique > Exploration > Aspect social
- Outer space
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-238) and index.
- Contents
- Prelude -- From 'Earth Dolphins' to this book -- To rewrite the master narratives of space flight -- Inappropriate contiguities: the spaceship, the horoscope and the dolphin -- Cosmos and ocean: the extraterrestrial 'commons' -- To cannibalize and worship the wild: in early modernity and today -- Amazing stories -- Map of Matrices -- Methods and materials -- To speak as implicated strangers -- On the inclusion of 'nature' in feminist cultural studies -- Human, non-human, posthuman -- Are animals a feminist issue? -- Do feminists need a cosmology? -- Feminism, science and spirituality -- Philosophy's shadows and the female divine -- Feminism, story-telling and extraterrestrialism -- To widen the geographical map of cultural studies -- Amazing Stories I-III: The Spaceship, the Horoscope and the Dolphin -- Touch the moon! -- A coincidental meeting -- This is a trick! -- Between Amazement and Estrangement -- The space age adventure: to leave human marks in outer space -- 'The Space Mural -- a Cosmic View' -- 'To the conquerors of space ... ' -- The masculine adventure story -- The New Age pilgrimage: to be pervaded with macrocosmic meaning -- Celestine messages and meaningful coincidences -- A world of reversals -- Dolphin fables of New Age and Space Age: between pastoral and science fiction -- The dolphin as noble savage -- To be imprinted with cetacean wisdom -- Pastoral precursors -- The dolphin as cyborg -- 'Uplift' and 'education in humanity' -- To read out of context -- The Big Mission -- To devote one's life to the Big Mission.
- ISBN
- 1856498158
- 9781856498159
- 1856498166
- 9781856498166
- LCCN
- 99052387
- OCLC
- ocm42652712
- 42652712
- SCSB-1127420
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library