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Birth of Donna Haraway
Donna Jeanne Haraway was born on September 6, 1944 to parents Dorothy Maguire Haraway (mother) and Frank O. Haraway (father) in Denver, Colorado. -
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Education
Donna Haraway attended high school at St. Mary’s Academy in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado. From there, she went on to study zoology with a minors in philosophy as well as English Literature at Colorado College. After graduation, Haraway studied abroad in Paris for a year on a Fulbright scholarship at the Faculté des Sciences, Université de Paris and Foundation Teilhard de Chardin in Paris. Haraway received her Ph.D. from the Department of Biology at Yale in 1972. -
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Personal Life
While at Yale, Donna Haraway met Jaye Miller and the two married in 1970. Haraway and Miller separated in 1973 after Miller became more involved with gay rights and activism. (Jaye Miller was openly gay since 1968) When Haraway was an Assistant Professor at John Hopkins In 1974, she met her partner Rusten Hogness. Haraway, Miller, Hogness, and Miller's partner Robert Filomeno shared a house together in Healdsburg, CA until Miller(1991) and Filomeno(1986) died of AIDS. -
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Career
In 1970, Haraway taught courses in general science and women's studies at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.
In 1974, she was hired as Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Science at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
In 1980, Haraway taught feminist and scientific studies at the University of California.
Haraway has also lectured in feminist theory & techno-science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland as well as other universities. -
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Other Publications
Donna Haraway also wrote;
Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields : Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology, 1976. Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, New York: Routledge, and London: Free Association Books, 1991. Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience, New York: Routledge, 1997 The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003. -
A Cyborg Manifesto
In 1985, Donna Haraway published an essay called "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century" in the Socialist Review. Haraway uses the metaphor of a cyborg to challenge feminists to engage in politics beyond naturalism and essentialism as well as using the metaphor as a sort of strategy for the desperate interests of feminism. -
Situated Knowledges
Donna Haraway wrote the essay "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective" in 1988 as commentary on Sandra Harding's The Science Question in Feminism (1987) as well as a reply to Harding's "successor science". In Haraway's essay, she offers an evaluation on feminist intervention into traditions of scientific rhetoric that are predominantly masculine. -
Primate Visions
In 1989 Donna Haraway published "Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science". In Primate Visions, Haraway focuses on primate studies throughout history. She claimed that female primatologists could observe different observations which required more communication and basic survival activities; thus providing different viewpoints of nature and culture from the present accepted observations. -
Ludwik Fleck Prize
Donna Haraway's book Modest_Witness(published 1996) was awarded the Ludwik Fleck Prize in 1999 by 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science). -
J.D. Bernal Award
In September of 2000, the Society for Social Studies of Science awarded Donna Haraway the J.D.(John Desmond) Bernal award for her outstanding contributions to the field. -
Works Cited
Haraway, Donna Jeanne. How like a Leaf: an Interview with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve. Routledge, 2000.
Ebooks, Critical Theory. “Cultural & Critical Theory Library.” Who Is Donna Haraway ?, criticaltheorylibrary.blogspot.com/2010/12/who-is-donna-haraway.html.
Haraway, Donna. “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.” Feminist Studies, vol. 14
“Donna Haraway.” Paracosmic Immersion - Cyborg Anthropology, cyborganthropology.com/Donna_Haraway. -
Link to Educational Video of Donna Haraway's Work
