The Haraway Reader

by Haraway,Donna

• ISBN13: 9780415966894
• ISBN10: 0415966892
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Donna Haraway's work has transformed the fields of cyberculture, feminist studies, and the history of science and technology. Her subjects range from animal dioramas in the American Museum of Natural History to research in transgenic mice, from gender in the laboratory to the nature of the cyborg. Trained as an historian of science, she has produced a series of books and essays that have become essential reading in cultural studies, gender studies, and the history of science.The Haraway Readerbrings together a generous selection of Donna Haraway's work. Included is her "Manifesto for Cyborgs," in which she famously wrote that she "would rather be a cyborg than a goddess." Other selections are taken from her three major works,Primate Visions, Modest Witness, andSimians, Cyborgs and Women, as well as some of her more recent writing on animals. For readers in cultural studies, feminist theory, science studies, and cyberculture, Donna Haraway is one of our keenest observers ofnature, science, and the social world. This volume is the best introduction to her thought.

Author Biography

Donna Haraway is Professor of the History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Kinship of Feminist Figurations	1	(6)
A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s	7	(40)
Ecce Homo, Ain't (Ar'n't) I a Woman, and Inappropriate/d Others: The Human in a Post-Humanist Landscape	47	(16)
The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others	63	(62)
Otherworldly Conversations; Terran Topics; Local Terms	125	(26)
Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908--1936	151	(48)
Morphing in the Order: Flexible Strategies, Feminist Science Studies, and Primate Revisions	199	(24)
Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium	223	(28)
Race: Universal Donors in a Vampire Culture. It's All in the Family: Biological Kinship Categories in the Twentieth-Century United States	251	(44)
Cyborgs to Companion Species: Reconfiguring Kinship in Technoscience	295	(26)
Cyborgs, Coyotes, and Dogs: A Kinship of Feminist Figurations and There Are Always More Things Going on Than You Thought! Methodologies as Thinking Technologies	321	(22)
An interview with Donna Haraway Conducted in two parts
Nina Lykke
Randi Markussen
Finn Olesen
Note on Sources	343	(2)
Index	345