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Published a Cyborg Manifesto
According to Haraway's "Manifesto", "there is nothing about being female that naturally binds women together into a unified category. There is not even such a state as 'being' female, itself a highly complex category constructed in contested sexual scientific discourses and other social practices". Haraway, Donna Jeanne. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century. 2009. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbc3C4-uHsg -
Wrote Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
This essay was originally written as a commentary on Sandra Harding's "The Science Question in Feminism" (1986)
Haraway offers a critique of the feminist intervention into masculinized traditions of scientific rhetoric and the concept of objectivity. The essay identifies the metaphor that gives shape to the traditional feminist critique as a polarization.
Haraway, Donna Jeanne. Situated Knowledges: the Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. S.n., 1988. -
Wrote Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science
She contended that female primatologists focus on different observations that require more communication and basic survival activities, offering very different perspectives of the origins of nature and culture than the currently accepted ones. Haraway, Donna J. Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. Routledge, 2015. -
Awarded the J. D. Bernal Award
In September 2000, Donna Haraway was awarded the Society for Social Studies of Science's highest the J. D. Bernal Award, for her "distinguished contributions" to the field.