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Donna Jeanna Haraway is born
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Haraway's work is a rejection of essentialism and the clear divide between different states. The cyborg itself blurs the lines between man and machine, real and imagined. The concept was intended as a critique of traditional feminism and a call to shift views towards a dualistic view in which gender is not divided on clear lines, but exists more in a fluid state and identity is based on personal choice.
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In her work, Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science, Haraway discusses the biases in research in the field of primatology. She notes that male research often presents the data in a very masculine way, with a focus on reproductive competition. Female researchers focus more on community and survival tactics. Haraway suggests considering revisions offered by female researchers. -
Haraway discusses the concept of the population with the motto "Make Kin Not Babies." Her work with Adele Clark sparked a lot of controversy in the way Haraway looked at the population as a problem. In Haraway's work, she describes a need to move away from the capitalistic view of families into a model of caring. The work was in response to the "Anthropocene" and growing concerns over the effects of the human population on the environment.
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In a continuation of her work, Haraway wrote the book "Staying with the Trouble" to describe life post-Anthropocene in what she calls "The Chtuluscene." This work emphasizes a connectedness, not just with other humans but with the critters and the world as a whole. The work presents different ways of thinking such as String Figures and Tentacular thinking which can be seen as metaphors of collective thought.
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