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Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology
Donna Haraway uses the work of pioneering developmental biologists as a springboard for a discussion about a shift in developmental biology. The book interweaves Thomas Kuhn's concept of paradigm change into this wide-ranging analysis, emphasizing the role of model, analogy, and metaphor in the paradigm and arguing that any truly useful theoretical system in biology must have a central metaphor. -
A Cyborg Manifesto
The Manifesto criticizes traditional notions of feminism, particularly feminist focuses on identity politics, and encouraging instead coalition through affinity. She uses the metaphor of a cyborg to urge feminists to move beyond the limitations of traditional gender, feminism, and politics. -
Situated Knowledges
In the essay Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective, Haraway focuses on Objectivity, as it is currently defined as “an external, disembodied point of view” that allegedly provides an absolute and, by extension, potentially irrefutable point of view on a given issue. -
Primate Visions
In Primate Visions Donna Haraway maps primate studies over the course of history and across the boundaries of several disciplines. She begins with early twentieth century, European male researchers and, moves on to cultural research among whom were women and, finally, she examines the fictional narratives of primates that appear in feminist science fiction.
