“Metaphors into Hardware: Harry
Harlow and the Technology of Love”
Donna Haraway
Prepared by:
Dr. Kay Picart
Guide Question:

According to
Haraway, what
stories does
Harlow’s awardwinning science tell
us?
Discussion Questions:

Describe how
Harlow’s conceptual
birthing of surrogate
mother constitutes a
“self-birthing.”
 What role did
Margaret Harlow
play in this
parthenogenetic
birth?
Guide Question

Haraway writes:
“Reinforcing the
heroic masculinist
narrative of selfbirthing is the
forceps of sadism.”
What does “sadism”
mean in this
context?
Discussion Question:

Using Teresa de
Lauretis & Laura
Mulvey, how does
the politics of the
gaze in the Harlow
laboratory parallel
the politics of the
gaze of Hollywood
cinema?
Guide Question:

According to
Haraway, what was
the deeper subtext
to Harlow’s
experimentation on
monkeys?
Guide Question

What were Harlow’s
scientific claims to
fame?