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Birth
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A Cyborg Manifesto
In 1985 Haraway published what would become her most well known and influential work: "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late 20th Century". This essay makes use of a cyborg, a creature part human and part machine, as it's main metaphorical tool. Haraway argues that the essay is in part "...an effort to contribute to socialist-feminist culture
and theory in a postmodernist, non-naturalist mode and
in the utopian tradition of imagining a world without gender" -
Situated Knowledges
In 1988 Dr. Haraway published "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective". This text addresses Feminism's forays into science and thereby the philosophy of science. Written as a response to Sandra Harding's The Science Question in Feminism, Haraway attempts remedy a perceived polarization of Feminist thought; with one end dismissing science as primarily rhetoric, and the other being what Haraway calls: "feminist empiricism". -
The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness
The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, published in 2003, takes aim at the relationship between humans and nonhuman domesticated animals. Haraway suggests a change in terminology from companion "animals" to "companion species", helping highlight the fact that we are animals just of another species. She uses comparisons of people and our relationships to different animals to draw conclusions about how humanity should relate to "otherness" within our species. -
Make Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations
Make Kin not Population is the brain child of Dr, Haraway and another Feminist scholar, Adele Clarke. The book attempts to answer questions regarding the development of families, reproduction, and future generations as it related to environmental concerns. It seeks to address these questions from the perspective of "anti-racist, ecologically-concerned, feminist scholars" and provide "analyses of complex issues of intimacy and kinship..."(Princeton) -
Current Life
Dr. Haraway began working at Santa Cruz University in 1980, where she became the first tenured professor of Feminist Theory in the United States, and she remains there to this day.