Donna J. Haraway (jan 1, 1944 – 11h 42min, nov 9, 2024 y)

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ABOUT
- American, PhD at Yale in Biology, teaches in the "History of Consciousness" dept at UC Santa Cruz
- highly influential in feminist theory, science & technology studies (STS), anthropology, and posthumanism
- focuses on history of "biological thought," particularly in human-animal & human-technology relations

MAJOR WORKS
- A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (1985)
- Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989)
- The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (2003)
- Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016)

CONTRIBUTIONS
- feminist science studies
- the cyborg and posthumanism
- multispecies anthropology

CRITIQUES
- dense and jargon-heavy writing makes her difficult to read
- critics argue that her work is heavily rooted in Western philosophical traditions and that her metaphors may not adequately account for the diversity of perspectives across global cultures
- Marxist and materialist feminists have critiqued Haraway's focus on technology and symbolism, arguing that her work sometimes neglects the economic and social structures that shape oppression

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