Douglas F. Morgan, Kent S. Robinson, Dennis Strachota, James A. Hough

Introduction: The Persistence of Vision; Part 1 Monkeys and Monopoly Capitalism: Primatology Before World War II; Chapter 2 Primate Colonies and the Extraction of Value; Chapter 3 Teddy Bear Patriarchy Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908¿1936; Chapter 4 A Pilot Plant for Human Engineering: Robert Yerkes and the Yale Laboratories of Primate Biology,1924¿1942; Chapter 5 A Semiotics of the Naturalistic Field: From C.R. Carpenter to S.A. Altmann 1930¿1955; Part 2 Decolonization and Multinational Primatology; Chapter 6 Re-Instituting Western Primatology after World War II; Chapter 7 Apes in Eden, Apes in Space: Mothering as a Scientist for National Geographic; Chapter 8 Remodeling the Human Way of Life: Sherwood Washburn and the New Physical Anthropology, 1950¿1980; Chapter 9 Metaphors into Hardware: Harry Harlow and the Technology of Love; Chapter 10 The Bio-politics of a Multicultural Field; Part 3 Women's Place is in the Jungle; Chapter 11 Women's Place is in the Jungle; Chapter 12 Jeanne Altmann: Time-Energy Budgets of Dual Career Mothering; Chapter 13 Linda Marie Fedigan: Models for Intervention; Chapter 14 Adrienne Zihlman: The Paleoanthropology of Sex and Gender; Chapter 15 Sarah Blaffer Hrdy: Investment Strategies for the Evolving Portfolio of Primate Females; Chapter 16 Reprise: Science Fiction, Fictions of Science, and Primatology; Mira's Morning Song; Notes; Sources; Index;

The themes of race, sexuality, gender, nation, family, and class have been written into the body of nature in western life sciences since the eighteenth century. In the wake of post-World War II decolonization, local and global feminist and anti-racist movements, nuclear and environmental threats, and broad consciousness of the fragility of earth's webs of life, nature remains a crucially important and deeply contested myth and reality.