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Birth of Donna Haraway
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"The Cyborg Manifesto"
Haraway wrote " The Cyborg Manifesto" to make people aware of traditional notions of feminism and to encourage women to push past the "limitations" and go for what they want and feel confident in their skin. Haraway states in her essay "Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?"(Haraway)
Cox, Lara. “Decolonial Queer Feminism in Donna Haraway’s ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ (1985).” Paragraph, vol. 41, no. 3, Nov. 2018, pp. 317–332. EBSCOhost, -
"Primate Visions"
Haraway in "Primate Visions questioned fundamental construction of human nature from primates. Haraway states in the essay " “Children, artificial intelligence (AI) computer programs, and nonhuman primates all here embody ‘almost minds’" (Haraway)
Byrd, L. (2001). Byrd on Haraway, 'Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science'. H-Net Review. https://networks.h-net.org/node/6873/reviews/7388/byrd-haraway-primate-visions-gender-race-and-nature-world-modern-science. -
"Simians, Cyborgs, and Woman"
Haraway talks about in "Simons, Cyborgs and Women" that relationships in society is based on dominance and the recurring notion of an oppressor and the oppressed.Haraway states in her writing “Anyone who has done historical research knows that the undocumented often have more to say about how the world is put together than do the well pedigreed" (Haraway). Haraway, Donna J. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. , 1991. -
"The Haraway Reader"
Haraway wrote this book as an introduction to her thoughts. She incorporated a collection of her pervious works such as " A Manifesto for Cyborgs" and "Cyborgs to Companion Species: Reconfiguring Kinship in Technoscience." Haraway begins the book with this thought " Rage is not relativism in the sense that either facts or fictions are matters of “personal” opinion or “multicultural” difference" (Haraway). Haraway, Donna Jeanne. The Haraway Reader. Routledge, 2004. -
Donna Haraway Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFGXTQnJETg In this video Haraway talks about how she uses Speculative Fabulation to narrate her writings.
