Donna Haraway

University of California, Santa Cruz | UCSC

This preface offers a playful and insightful introduction to the thought of Vinciane Despret from her colleague and collaborator. Despret's philosophical approach builds from the virtue of politeness, which allows animals – concrete, individual animals – to be interesting. Part appraisal, part speculative narrative, this preface looks at the curiou...

An influential feminist scholar in the field of human-animal studies, Donna Haraway (Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz) has over the past couple of decades provided ground-breaking critiques of such subjects as twentieth century primatology (and its links to race, gender and first-world...

In the joint keynote address that bioanthropologist Barbara Smuts and I did in 2004 for the Society for Literature and Science meetings, she and I were companion species with each other, as well as with other critters, as we explored our entangled histories dating to her helping me in the mid-1980s with Primate Visions, and extending through our pr...

This chapter is an effort to build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism, and materialism. Perhaps more faithful as blasphemy is faithful, than as reverent worship and identification. Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously. I know no better stance to adopt from within the secular-religious, evangelica...

The misadventures of the Author in writing about a "key-word" for a famous marxist dictionary are recounted here. In her own words: "Also, even if Marx and Engels – or Gayle Rubin, for that matter – had not ventured into sexology, medicine, or biology for their discussions of sex/gender or the woman question, I knew I would have to do so. At the sa...

In 1983, Nora Räthzel from the autonomous women’s collective of the West German independent Marxist journal, Das Argument, wrote to ask me to write a “keyword” entry for a new Marxist dictionary An editorial group from Das Argument had undertaken an ambitious project to translate the multi-volume Dictionnaire Critique du Marxism (Labica and Benusse...

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TEACHING in women's studies classrooms is an historically specific activity. Such teaching inherits, constructs, and transmits particular reading and writing practices that are politically complex. These material practices are part of the apparatus which produces what will count as 'experience' on personal and collective levels in women's movement....

This paper was first published in Socialist Review, no. 80, 1985. The essay originated as a response to a call for political thinking about the 1980s from socialist-feminist points of view, in hopes of deepening our political and cultural debates in order to renew commitments to fundamental social change in the face of the Reagan years. The "Cyborg...

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Book reviewed in this article:The Triumph of Evolution: American Scientists and the Heredity-Environment Controversy, 1900–1941. By Hamilton Cravens.

H ow should the social sciences engage with the materiality of "nature"? The literatures of both the social studies of science and gender studies have wrestled with this question in their analyses of the production of scientific knowledge. In examining the production or consumption of scientific knowledge, these literatures have demonstrated how pr...

The article discusses the figure of the British scientist Robert Boyle as the construction of the modern image of scientific authority and objectivity through social and literary technologies that systematically exclude nonhegemonic groups (women, colored people). The paper argues that the figure of the self-invisible modest witness in technoscient...