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Donna Haraway (1944-) - The Search for Organizing Relations: An Organismic Paradigm in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology
In 1972, Donna Haraway published her thesis "Organizing Relations", which discusses the interplay of scientific practice, Kuhnian gaps in paradigmatic coherence and the evolution of metaphoric representation in new theories of embryology and developmental biology from a multi-discipline approach of biology, philosophy, history of science and medicine. Article about metaphors in developmental bio:
https://dev.biologists.org/content/140/24/4827
Cite:
Haraway, Donna Jeanne. N.p., 1972. Print. -
Donna Haraway (1944-) - Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the 1980s
In 1985, Haraway published her most famous essay, "A Cyborg Manifesto". In it, she challenges the liberal human subject and its susceptibility to corruption and inequality, as well as the “deeply imbued” state of women in intellectual hierarchies. Genderless, raceless cyborgs can see "from both perspectives at once” and Haraway imagined a world like theirs could produce powerful positive change.
Comic:
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/305
Video:
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Donna Haraway (1944-) - Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
In 1988, Haraway published her thesis "Situated Knowledges", which exposes the myth of scientific objectivity. Instead of choosing realism vs relativism, she proposes a third option of situated knowledge, which “allows us to become answerable for what we learn how to see”.
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bviRiZRzwV4
Cite:
Haraway, Donna. “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.” Feminist Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, 1988, pp. 575–599 -
Donna Haraway (1944-) - Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science
In 1989, Haraway published "Primate Visions", which provides a history of primatology, shows how science can be affected by a researcher’s biases and misconceptions, discusses primatologist greats such as Goodall and Fossey, and offers a feminist critique of primatology. Legacy of female primatologists:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqGJ3NbfWOA Cite:
Haraway, Donna Jeanne. Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. Psychology Press, 1989. Print. -
Donna Haraway (1944-) - Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience
From 1990 to 1996, Haraway collaborated with feminist theorist Lynn Randolph and in 1997, published "Modest_Witness", which through FemaleMan’s (the author figure) encounters with DuPont’s laboratory rodent, OncoMouse, discusses the effects of technoscience on humanity, economics, advertising, as well as the masculine bias in scientific culture.
Cite:
Haraway, Donna Jeanne. Modest₋WitnessSecond₋Millennium.FemaleMan₋Meets₋OncoMouse Feminism and Technoscience. Psychology Press, 1997. Print.
