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Articles for DWF
Animal sociology and political physiology, 1981, n. 17, pp. 29-47
The assimilation of the organic to the social body, of physiology to politics, have been the foundation of a series of old and new justifications of domination. In particular of those justifications based on so-called natural differences, inevitable and therefore right.
Starting from the critique both of a refusal of natural sciences and of the acceptance of that assimilation (two positions present in the feminist movement), the author analyses the first theories, stemming from research on primates, which in the 30's in the U.S.A. sanctioned the "natural", "physiological", link between sexuality and domination as the justification of a social order based on competition and domination.
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HARAWAY Donna J., Manifesto Cyborg. Donne, tecnologie e biopolitiche del corpo,
Milano, Feltrinelli, 1995
rev. by Simonetta Spinelli, 1995, n. 28, pp. 86-88