Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior
暫譯: 野外的女性主義：人類偏見如何塑造我們對動物行為的理解

Kamath, Ambika, Packer, Melina

Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior
  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2025-03-11
  • 售價: $1,020
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $969
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 208
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0262049635
  • ISBN-13: 9780262049634

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商品描述

How dominant culture--from sexism and homophobia to racism, capitalism, ableism, and more--has limited the science of animal behavior, and how we can free ourselves from these limited perspectives.

In Feminism in the Wild, Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer reveal how scientists studying animal behavior have long projected human norms and values onto animals while seeking to understand them. When scientific studies conclude that these norms and values are natural in animals, it makes it easier to think of them as natural in humans too. And because scientists, historically and to this day, largely belong to elite, powerful segments of society, the norms and values embedded in animal behavior science match those of the already powerful. How can animal behavior science escape this trap of naturalizing dominant culture?

Drawing from decades of feminist, antiracist, queer, disability justice, and Marxist contributions--including those of biologists--Kamath and Packer break down persistent assumptions in the status quo of animal behavior science and offer a multitude of alternative approaches. Core concepts in animal behavior science and evolutionary biology--from sex categories and sexual selection to fitness, adaptation, biological determinism, and more--are carefully contextualized and critically reexamined. This unique collaboration between an animal behavior scientist and a feminist science studies scholar is an illuminating and hopeful read for anyone who is curious about how animals behave, and anyone who wants to break free from scientific approaches that perpetuate systems of oppression.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

主流文化如何從性別歧視、恐同、種族主義、資本主義、能力主義等方面限制了動物行為科學，以及我們如何能夠擺脫這些有限的觀點。

在野外的女性主義中，Ambika Kamath和Melina Packer揭示了研究動物行為的科學家們在試圖理解動物時，長期以來將人類的規範和價值觀投射到動物身上。當科學研究得出這些規範和價值觀在動物中是自然的時候，這使得人們更容易認為它們在人類中也是自然的。而且，由於科學家們在歷史上以及至今，主要屬於社會中的精英和強勢群體，動物行為科學中所嵌入的規範和價值觀與已經強大的群體相匹配。動物行為科學如何能夠逃脫這種將主流文化自然化的陷阱？

Kamath和Packer借鑒了數十年的女性主義、反種族主義、酷兒、殘障正義和馬克思主義的貢獻——包括生物學家的貢獻——拆解了動物行為科學現狀中的持續假設，並提供了多種替代方法。動物行為科學和進化生物學中的核心概念——從性別類別和性選擇到適應度、適應、生物決定論等——都被仔細地置於背景中並進行批判性重新檢視。這位動物行為科學家與女性主義科學研究學者之間的獨特合作，對於任何對動物行為感到好奇的人，以及任何想要擺脫延續壓迫系統的科學方法的人來說，都是一個啟發性和充滿希望的閱讀體驗。

作者簡介

Ambika Kamath is trained as a behavioral ecologist and evolutionary biologist. She lives, works, and grows community in Oakland, California, on Ohlone land.

Melina Packer is Assistant Professor of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, on Ho-Chunk Nation land. She is the author of Toxic Sexual Politics: Toxicology, Environmental Poisons, and Queer Feminist Futures.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

安比卡·卡馬斯（Ambika Kamath）受過行為生態學和演化生物學的訓練。她居住、工作並在加利福尼亞州奧克蘭的奧洛尼（Ohlone）土地上建立社區。

梅莉娜·帕克（Melina Packer）是威斯康辛大學拉克羅斯分校（University of Wisconsin-La Crosse）種族、性別與性研究的助理教授，該校位於霍昌克國（Ho-Chunk Nation）土地上。她是《有毒的性政治：毒理學、環境毒素與酷兒女性主義的未來》（Toxic Sexual Politics: Toxicology, Environmental Poisons, and Queer Feminist Futures）的作者。

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