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General Information - Part I
Donna Haraway is an extremely important figure that brings science, technology studies, anthropology, and animal studies all together. As a very well educated woman she received her undergraduate at Colorado College with a major in Zoology and minor in Philosophy and English. Later she attended Yale for her PhD in Biology. -
Simians, Cbyorgs, and Women - Published
Haraway is theorist of the affiliation between people, other organisms and machines. In 1991 her book “Simians, Cyborgs, and Women” was published and states that a cyborg is a “fusion of the organic and technical forged in particular, historical, cultural practices.” She also had another publication back in 1985 titles “The Cyborg Manifesto” which is now taught in undergraduate and graduate level courses and universities all over the world. -
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General Information - Part IV
Primate Visions:
"My hope has been that the always oblique and sometimes perverse focusing would facilitate revisionings of fundamental, persistent western narratives about difference, especially racial and sexual difference; about reproduction, especially in terms of the multiplicities of generators and offspring; and about survival, especially about survival imagined in the boundary conditions of both the origins and ends of history, as told within western traditions of that complex genre" -
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General Information - Part II
Although I am not a feminist by any means, Donna Haraway is an active feminist and has published a multitude of books and essays but her most current research analyzes the ties between humans and other animals in contemporary contexts. Referencing back to the popular published book Simians, Cyborgs, and Women She uses the Cyborg metaphor to explain paramount contradictions in feminist theory and identity should associated rather than concluded. -
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Genral Information - Part III
As mentioned she is also has her PhD in Biology with her work on Primate Visions: she emphesises on the metaphors that are forthright to the science of primatology. She asserts that there is a tendency to masculinize the stories about "reproductive competition and sex between aggressive males and receptive females [that] facilitate some and preclude other types of conclusions" -
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References and Media
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqglzX_y5wM Reference:
Carubia, Josephine M., "Haraway on the Map", in Semiotic Review of Books. 9:1 (1998), 4-7. Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science, Routledge: New York and London, 1989r: