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Donna Haraway (September 6, 1944 - Present) Education
Donna Haraway received a Boettcher Foundation scholarship to attend Colorado College where she studied zoology and philosophy. After earning her degree at Colorado College, Donna Haraway received a Fulbright scholarship to study philosophies of evolution in Paris. After a year in Paris, she attended Yale where she completed her Ph. D. She received her Ph. D. in the Department of Biology in 1972 with an interdisciplinary focus in philosophy and the History of Science and Medicine. -
Donna Haraway (September 6, 1944 - Present) Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields
In 1976, Donna Haraway authored Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology which focuses on shifts in biology. Using Thomas Kuhn's paradigm model, she further explores the shift from the belief that organics can not be created from inorganic materials, otherwise known as vitalism to organicism, the concept that all things are intertwined like a living organism. -
Donna Haraway (September 6, 1944 - Present) Cyborg Manifesto
Donna Haraway published the Cyborg Manifesto:Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century which addresses a human evolutionary shift to a part organic and part machine, or cyborg, existence. This manifesto discusses that as a cyborg culture certain 'boundaries' are removed. One such boundary is a non-gender focused society where gender does not determine ones identity or place within that society. https://youtu.be/cHHc7mwBYEg -
Donna Haraway (September 6, 1944 - Present) Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspectives
In 1988, Donna Haraway wrote Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspectives to further explain feminist objectivity in the approach to the sciences. She discusses how women in the sciences are simultaneously enabled and constrained by two extreme realities, "radical constructivism" and "feminist critical empericism". -
Donna Haraway (September 6, 1944 - Present) Primate Visions
Donna Haraway, discusses the historical scientific approach to understanding sexuality among female primates and introduces the conversation of social constructs around gender roles, race and sexuality in her book, Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. She also addresses that feminism should not exclude males but is all inclusive and points out the racial bias against the few Black American biology graduate students who get funneled into healthcare. -
Donna Haraway (September 6, 1944 - Present) Modern Publications and Teaching
Donna Haraway has continued her work in the 2000s with additional publications such as the Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People and Significant Otherness and When Species Meet. Two bodies of work which discuss the interconnectedness of species during the course of evolutionary development. https://youtu.be/DqMW9-G2gCo
