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Neither a Genre of Feminism nor of Ethical Naturalism: Primatology as a Source of Naturalistic Truth and Fallacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Linda Marie Fedigan
Linda Marie Fedigan*
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University of Alberta, Canada
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Important insight into a problem can result from cross-disciplinary thinking. And yet, when I read an argument such as Arnhart's, I am often struck by the difficulty of bridging the gaps between disciplines, especially in relation to words that may be commonly used but differentially understood. The word nature is used without definition in many different forms and contexts in Arnhart's paper; and yet, throughout my reading of it, I felt that the author and I had not arrived at a firm and common understanding of the word.

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Roundtable Commentaries
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , August 1992 , pp. 172 - 174
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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References

Fedigan, L.M.(1986). “The Changing Role of Women in Models of Human Evolution.” Annual Review of Anthropology 15:25–66. [Reprinted inKirkup, G.and Keller, L. S., (eds.), Inventing Women: Science, Technology, and Gender. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1992.]Google Scholar
Fedigan, L.M.and Fedigan, L.(1989). “Gender and the Study of Primates.” Gender and Anthropology: Critical Reviews for Research and Teaching. Washington, DC: American Anthropological Association.Google Scholar