ABSTRACT
Donna Haraway's writings have been instrumental to a wide range of feminist debates about gender, race, nature and science, as well as to numerous questions of method and epistemology. Following her best-known article, 'A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s', Haraway has become a leading theorist of the embodied and lively connections uniting human beings, animals, machines and the systems of knowledge and meaning through which they exist and are known. Haraway is acutely attentive to the politics of knowledge production, and is well known for her concept of 'situated knowledges', by which she proposes an ethics of the knowing subject, and its limits. Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies takes a standpoint outside the dominant conceptual frameworks in the west to examine the eurocentrism and androcentrism of standard histories and philosophies of science. Nancy Hartsock argues that the oppression of women in patriarchal society provides them with a true understanding of patriarchy.
