Product Description

The author of four seminal works on science and culture, Donna Haraway here speaks for the first time in a direct and non-academic voice. How Like a Leaf will be a welcome inside view of the author's thought.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #446133 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11-03
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .65" h x 6.03" w x 8.99" l, .70 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

From Amazon.com
Donna J. Haraway is one of the most significant postmodern philosophers of science; essays such as "A Manifesto for Cyborgs"--as well as several books--have made her a star in academia and even a common reference point for many "cyberpunk" science fiction writers. In How Like a Leaf, a book-length interview with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve (one of her former graduate students in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz), Haraway opens up about her private life and the gradual development of her philosophy. While Goodeve does probe for details, her interview technique is completely sympathetic to her subject, lending an opportunity for Haraway to explain herself at leisure rather than under critical fire. Some readers are bound to find her too "out there" for their tastes, but for others, How Like a Leaf may serve as a prelude to further consideration of her more academic texts.

From Library Journal
How Like a Leaf is a welcome door to the complex theories and personal life of Haraway, a noted feminist historian of science. Though not a traditional biography, this will introduce readers to the experiences that played a significant role in Haraway's provocative works (Primate Visions). Interviewer Goodeve conducts her former teacher through the development of Haraway's theories and queries her subject about her influences. Admirers of this influential feminist scholar will acquire the most out of these engaging conversations, but the book will encourage others to explore Haraway's works more thoroughly. Recommended for all women's studies and academic science collections.AFaye A. Chadwell, Univ. of Oregon Libs., Eugene
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Review
...contributes to a history of women's lives in twentieth-century America as well as to a history of feminism. -- NWSA Journal
Goodeve easily steers the discussion to intensely personal territory that is sure to interest Haraway's admirers. She discusses the impact of her mother's death and her adult love relationships upon her work, and the link between her Catholic upbringing and the metaphorical heart of her theory. HOW LIKE A LEAF...is a terrific read, and on that brings an important theorist closer to the general public. -- Puncture Magazine
...people who seek a greater understanding of Haraway's work will find the interview well worth their time... It's most impressive attribute is that it manages to perform the integration between the personal, the political, the historical and the theoretical in a manner that is well suited to Haraway's thought. -- Kairos
How Like A Leaf is a welcome door to the complex theories and personal life of Haraway...Recommended for all women's studies and academic science collections. -- Library Journal, December 1999
How Like A Leaf offers its reader an inviting visit with Haraway, which evolves as a balanced blend of academic discourse and informal banter housed in a deceivingly slender book, as compared to the volumes of related thought it conjures. As cyborgs, our neurons resonate the electric hum of her words--their prophetic implications racing through terminals, past each glowing plexus with the thrill of transformation, and the exactness of circuitry. -- Foreword
Feminist philosopher of science, Donna J. Haraway, author of A Manifesto for Cyborgs and PRIMATE VISIONS, explains the roles that Heidegger, critical theory, California, and her ex-husband's death from AIDS play in her thinking in HOW LIKE A LEAF: An Interview with Donna J. Haraway b Thyrza Nicholas Goodeve. -- Publishers Weekly
Her extreordinayr mobility of point of view thrwarts bloc politics,flows like cool water over devastating oppressions -Linda Brigham, Cultural Studies October, 2001.