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Ebook: Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy
Author: Sarah Franklin
- Tags: Genealogy, Reference, Genetics, Evolution, Science & Math, Philosophy, Aesthetics, Analytic Philosophy, Consciousness & Thought, Criticism, Eastern, Epistemology, Ethics & Morality, Free Will & Determinism, Good & Evil, Greek & Roman, History & Surveys, Individual Philosophers, Logic & Language, Medieval Thought, Metaphysics, Methodology, Modern, Modern Renaissance, Movements, Political, Reference, Religious, Social Philosophy, Politics & Social Sciences, Biology & Life Sciences, Anatomy & Physiology, Biology, Botany, Ecology, Zo
- Series: a John Hope Franklin Center Book
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Duke University Press Books
- Edition: Edition Unstated
- Language: English
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Franklin combines wide-ranging sources—from historical accounts of sheep-breeding, to scientific representations of cloning by nuclear transfer, to popular media reports of Dolly’s creation and birth—as she draws on gender and kinship theory as well as postcolonial and science studies. She argues that there is an urgent need for more nuanced responses to the complex intersections between the social and the biological, intersections which are literally reshaping reproduction and genealogy. In Dolly Mixtures, Franklin uses the renowned sheep as an opportunity to begin developing a critical language to identify and evaluate the reproductive possibilities that post-Dolly biology now faces, and to look back at some of the important historical formations that enabled and prefigured Dolly’s creation.