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Donna Haraway 1944-Present

By MorganEF
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    Come Up

    Donna Haraway was born in 1944 in Denver Colorado. She studied zoology and philosophy at The Colorado College, where she received a Boettcher Foundation scholarship. She studied in Paris under a Fulbright scholarship. She completed her PhD in Biology at Yale in 1972 with a dissertation entitled “The Search for Organizing Relations: An Organismic Paradigm in 20th-Century Developmental Biology.”
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    Teaching

    Haraway taught science and women’s studies at the University of Hawaii from 1971 to 1974 and at Johns Hopkins University from 1974 to 1980. She joined the History of Consciousness program at Santa Cruz in 1980.

  • Cyborg Manifesto

    Haraway’s most famous essay was published in 1985: “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s.” This work was a critique of traditional feminism as well as a breakdown of the connection between human and animal and human and machine.
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    Other Famous Works

    “Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science” was published in 1989 and focuses on primate research and primatology. The essay collection “Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature” was published in 1991 and delineates simians, cyborgs, and women, all of which had a destabilizing role in western evolutionary, technological, and biological narratives. “Feminism and Technoscience” was published in 1997 and won Haraway Ludwik Fleck Prize in 1999.
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    Other Works(Cont.)

    “The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness” was published in 2003 and asked who we will become when species meet. “Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene” was published in 2016 and was about a becoming-with-each-other in another new term: what Haraway was calling the chthulucene.

  • Most Recent Book

    “Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations” was published in 2018 and offers different analyses of intimacy and kinship, as well as on environmental justice.

  • Informational Video

    https://youtu.be/xO9ytjSAutI

  • Sources

    “Donna Haraway.” The European Graduate School, egs.edu/biography/donna-haraway/. Anonymous "A Cyborg Manifesto Background". GradeSaver, 23 September 2019 Web. 6 May 2022.