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In her most popular published work, Haraway uses the analogy of a cyborg. A cyborg is a machine and an organism but not limited to gender. Haraway wrote this manifesto to declare the flaws of identity politics. Gender is the consequence of patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism.
Cite:
Donna J. Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991), 149-181 -
Haraway challenges science objectivity in her thesis "Situated Knowledges". Haraway describes that no knowledge doesn't come from no viewpoint. There is always a perspective.
Article:
Haraway, Donna. “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.” Feminist Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, 1988, pp. 575–99. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3178066. Accessed 7 July 2023. -
Donna Haraway studies monkeys and apes with humans to compare gender and sex to explain our foundations and our social construction. She uses primatology to characterize feminist roles.
Book:
Donna Jeanne Haraway. Primate Visions : Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. London, Routledge, 2015. -
Haraway collaborated with Lynn Randolph, a feminist theorist, to publish "Modest_Witness". The book explores technoscience and feminism. In this book, the lead character comes across the Oncomouse. A laboratory mouse that has been genetically modified for cancer research.
Book:
Haraway, Donna. Modest Witness : Feminism and Technoscience. London, Routledge, 1996. -
Haraway published the book "The Companion Species Manifesto" later in her career. She discusses the similarities between nature and culture using dogs. How being two different species, there is a lot of similarities.
Book:
Donna Haraway. The Companion Species Manifesto : Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness. Chicago, Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003.