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Birth of Donna Haraway
American Professor in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies. -
A Cyborg Manifesto
"Cyborg Manifesto,” an essay written by Donna Haraway and published in 1985 to explain the feminist position on science and technology studies and address conservatism in the 1980's. In this essay she uses a metaphor depicting cyborgs (beings both human and machine) that viewed the world without gender or sexuality preference. The Manifesto can largely be understood as a subversion of the philosophical position of essentialism, which believes in the static being of entities. Orr, J. (2012). -
Cyborg Manifesto Short Clip
This short clip summaries Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto". A Cyborg Manifesto -
Situated Knowledges
Haraway introduced situated knowledges to feminist epistemology, as a way of expressing a form of objectivity that takes seriously the social construction of knowledge and the perspectival nature of knowledge demonstrated by feminists. She suggests that all knowledge is local and limited, denying the possibility of the impartial view-from-nowhere that has often been associated with the perspective of objective knowledge. What she suggests instead is an embodied objectivity. Grasswick, H 2018. -
Primate Visions
Haraway's book documented the influence that the incorporation of feminist women in primatology had on the study of primate behavior and animal behavior more generally. Haraway shows that feminist primatologist Jeanne Altmann, instigated a quiet but powerful methodological revolution. Altmann's contributions to primatology and animal behavior provides an example of the positive impact of feminism and feminist scientists on the practices and products of scientific research. Stanford, G. (1991). -
Modest Witness
Donna Haraway explains the central importance of a particular kind witness with specifically non-female modesty as one of the founding virtues of what we call modernity. This is the virtue that guarantees that the modest witness is the legitimate and authorized ventriloquist for the object world, adding nothing from his mere opinions, from his biasing embodiment. And so he is endowed with the remarkable power to establish the facts. Haraway, Donna. (1997). -
References
-Orr, J. (2012). Materializing a cyborg's manifesto. Women's Studies Quarterly, 40(1), 273-280.
-Grasswick, Heidi, "Feminist Social Epistemology", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2018 Edition)
-Stanford, G. (1991). American Anthropologist, 93(4), new series, 1031-1032. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/681061
-Donna J. Haraway, Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouseª: Feminism and Technoscience. New York and London: Routledge, 1997.
