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Birth
Donna Jeanne Haraway was born in 1944 in Denver, Colorado. Haraway's father was a sportswriter for The Denver Post and her mother, who came from a heavily Irish Catholic background -
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Early Education
Haraway attended high school at St. Mary’s Academy in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado. -
Mother died
Donna's mother died from a heart attack when she was 16 years old. -
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College Education
Haraway majored in Zoology, with minors in philosophy and English at the Colorado College, on the full-tuition Boettcher Scholarship.6 -
Studying Aboard
After college, Haraway moved to Paris and at the Fondation Teilhard de Chardin studied evolutionary philosophy and theology on a Fulbright scholarship. -
Dr. Haraway
She completed her Ph.D. in biology at Yale in 1972 writing a dissertation about the use of metaphor in shaping experiments in experimental biology titled The Search for Organizing Relations: An Organismic Paradigm in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology. -
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Professor Haraway
Haraway taught history of science and women’s studies at the University of Hawaii from 1971-74. -
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Professor Haraway Cont.
Haraway continued teaching history and Woman studies at Johns Hopkins University from 1974–80 -
History of Consciouness
She joined the History of Consciousness program at Santa Cruz in 1980. -
A Cyborg Manifesto
"A Cyborg Manifesto" is an essay written by Donna Haraway and published in 1985 in the Socialist Review. In it, the concept of the cyborg is a rejection of rigid boundaries, notably those separating "human" from "animal" and "human" from "machine".
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Situated Knowledges
Haraway publishes "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective". Additionally, Haraway is widely cited in works related to Human Computer Interaction (HCI), for her contributions to the intersection of information technology and feminist theory, . -
Primate Visions
Haraway’s work is also grounded in the history of science and biology. In Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1990), she focuses on the metaphors and narratives that direct the science of primatology.
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Cyborg Feminism
In her updated essay "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century", in her book Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991), Haraway uses the cyborg metaphor to explain how fundamental contradictions in feminist theory and identity should be conjoined, rather than resolved, similar to the fusion of machine and organism in cyborgs. -
Alternative Perspective
Haraway presents an alternative perspective to the way scientific human nature stories are created. Haraway urges feminists to be more involved in the world of technoscience and to be credited for that involvement. -
The Companion Species Manifesto
The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, is “a story of co-habitation, co-evolution, and embodied cross-species sociality”, “a story of biopower and bioscociality, as well as of technoscience” -
Making Kin not Population
Haraway’s last book (co-edited with Adele Clarke, Prickly Paradigm 2018), Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations, offers different analyses of intimacy and kinship, as well as on environmental justice. Lauren O’Neill-Butler, Interview with Donna Haraway, https://www.artforum.com/interviews/donna-j-haraway-speaks-about-her-latest-book-63147