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Donna Haraway
Born 6 SEP 1944 (age 75) Donna Haraway is an American Professor at the University of California. She is a scholar in the field of science and technology described as a "feminist". She is known for several works but is most notably known for her essay "A Cyborg Manifesto".
Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991), pp.149-181. -
A Cyborg Manifesto
Donna Haraway writes and publishes her well known essay used to this day for undergraduate studies called " A Cyborg Manifesto". In it she encourages feminists to move beyond the limits of traditional gender, feminism, and politics. She explains three boundary breakdowns since the 20th century that have allowed for her hybrid cyborg myth. Human and animal, animal-human and machine, and physical and non physical.
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Situated Knowledges
In Haraway’s theses, "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective", her intent is to expose the myth of scientific objectivity. She used the term “situated knowledges” as a means of understanding that knowledge comes from positional perspectives. Without this accountability, the implicit biases and social stigmas of the researcher’s community are twisted into truth from which to build assumptions and hypothesis. -
Primate Visions
Donna Haraway went on to write "Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. however in a 1997 publication she remarked that she wanted feminists to become more enrolled in the meaning-making process of techno-scientific world-building. She also went on to say she wanted everyone to be recognized for the articulations and enrollment being made, in spite of the ignorance of most mainstream scholars.
