Modest_ Witness@Second _Millenium
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Modest_ Witness@Second _Millenium
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Ornithology
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Human Biology
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Biological Sciences
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History
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Chemistry
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Gender Studies
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Description
Boyle's 'New Experiments Physico-Mechanical Touching the Spring of the Air', which describes experiments with an air-pump, recounts a demonstration attended by high-born women at which small birds were suffocated by the evacuation of the chamber in which the animals were held. Since the ladies interrupted the experiments by demanding that air be let in to rescue a struggling bird, Boyle reported that “to avoid such difficulties, the men later assembled at night to conduct the procedure and attest to the results” (Haraway 2004: 232).
Creator
Donna Haraway
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Date Created
2004
Source
Haraway, D. 2004. Modest_witness@second_millennium. Femaleman_meets_oncomouse: Feminism and Technoscience. Boca Raton, FL: Routledge
Resonances
suffocation
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Donna Haraway
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Robert Boyle
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experiment
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sympathy
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airpump
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outsider
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insular
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hermetic
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chamber
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Jaak Panksepp
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The Brown Dog Affair
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vivisection
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Jane Yeats
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medicine chest
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The Royal Society
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gentleman
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