Reading Donna Haraway

A Feminist Theoretical and Methodological Perspective

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ID12499147
AuthorsCarolyn Dipalma (University of South Florida, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume5
Issue1
Pages50-83
Publication date1999-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian Journal of Women s Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1225-9276 • E-ISSN: 2377-004X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/12259276.1999.11665841
OpenAlexW2216642619
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

While weaving together notions of gender, race, and nature, this paper pursues interactions between vision, storytelling, and irony in Donna Haraway's Primate Visions (1989). These interactions are approached as opportunities for politically rich discussions informed by feminism, genealogy, semiotics, and political and visual theory. Haraway's constant use and critique of disruptive reading and writing practices is described as a theoretically informed methodology and as political action. Her innovative methodology and political style implicitly calls readers to task for complicity with power by demonstrating and questioning various ways to disrupt understanding and to make new meaning. In short, Haraway brings her politics to the page by demanding that we responsibly engage the tensions in the many ironies she puts before us. This is a methodological skill from which feminist theorists might benefit in their attempts to alter the dominant discourse

Aesthetics · Complicity · Epistemology · Feminism · Irony · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Politics · Power (physics · Reading (process · Sociology · Vision · Animal and Plant Science Education · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy

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