Primate Visions: Gender, Race and Nature in the World of Modern Science

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Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Persistence of Vision PART ONE: Monkeys and Monopoly Capitalism: Primatology before World War II 2 Primate Colonies and the Extraction of Value 3 Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-36 4 A Pilot Plant for Human Engineering: Robert Yerkes and the Yale Laboratories of Primate Biology, 1924-42 5 A Semiotics of the Naturalistic Field: From C.R. Carpenter to S.A. Altmann, 1930-55 PART TWO: Decolonization and Multinational Primatology 6 Re-Instituting Western Primatology after World War II 7 Apes in Eden, Apes in Space: Mothering as a Scientist for National Geographic 8 Remodeling the Human Way of Life: Sherwood Washburn and the New Physical Anthropology, 1950-1980 9 Metaphors into Hardware: Harry Harlow and the Technology of Love 10 The Bio-Politics of a Multicultural Field PART THREE: The Politics of Being Female: Primatology is a Genre of Feminist Theory 11 Women's Place is in the Jungle 12 Jeanne Altmann: Time-Energy Budgets of Dual Career Mothering 13 Linda Marie Fedigan: Models for Interventions 14 Adrienne Zihlman: The Paleoanthropology of Sex and Gender 15 Sarah Blaffer Hrdy: Investment Strategies for the Evolving Portfolio of Primate Females 16 Reprise: Science Fiction, Fictions of Science, and Primatology Mira's Morning Song Notes Sources Index