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A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
In her most popular published work, Haraway uses the analogy of a cyborg. A cyborg is a machine and an organism but not limited to gender. Haraway wrote this manifesto to declare the flaws of identity politics. Gender is the consequence of patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism.
Cite:
Donna J. 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), 149-181 -
Situated Knowledges: The Science Questions in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
Haraway challenges science objectivity in her thesis "Situated Knowledges". Haraway describes that no knowledge doesn't come from no viewpoint. There is always a perspective.
Article:
Haraway, Donna. “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.” Feminist Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, 1988, pp. 575–99. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3178066. Accessed 7 July 2023. -
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science
Donna Haraway studies monkeys and apes with humans to compare gender and sex to explain our foundations and our social construction. She uses primatology to characterize feminist roles.
Book:
Donna Jeanne Haraway. Primate Visions : Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. London, Routledge, 2015. -
Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium.FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse
Haraway collaborated with Lynn Randolph, a feminist theorist, to publish "Modest_Witness". The book explores technoscience and feminism. In this book, the lead character comes across the Oncomouse. A laboratory mouse that has been genetically modified for cancer research.
Book:
Haraway, Donna. Modest Witness : Feminism and Technoscience. London, Routledge, 1996. -
The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness
Haraway published the book "The Companion Species Manifesto" later in her career. She discusses the similarities between nature and culture using dogs. How being two different species, there is a lot of similarities.
Book:
Donna Haraway. The Companion Species Manifesto : Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness. Chicago, Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003.