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Donna Haraway Early Life
-Born September 6, 1944 in Denver Colorado
-Studied zoology and philosophy at The Colorado College
-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" (EGS, 2023).
-Taught (history of) science and women’s studies at the University of Hawaii (1971-1974) and at Johns Hopkins University (1974–80) (EGS, 2023). -
Haraway's Most Famous Essay
-“A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s” (Socialist Review, no. 80) “is an effort to build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism, and materialism” (EGS, 2023).
-"It is also more female than male and thus serves as the basis of a new feminist relation with technology" (Key Theories, 2018).
-Her essay is considered a cornerstone of feminist theory from the impact it had on understanding gender, identity, and technology (Oxford, 2023). -
Primate Research and Primatology
-"Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science... (Routledge), focuses on primate research and primatology" (EGS, 2023).
-Haraway discovered in "the ideological assumptions about female–male relations (man, the hunter, for example)...are often projected back onto current human behaviour" (Key Theories, 2018).
-She hoped to "facilitate revisionings of fundamental...western narratives" about "racial and sexual difference...reproduction...and about survival" (EGS, 2023). -
The Relationship Between Humans and Animals
-"The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (2003) explores the complex relationships between humans and dogs, and provides new insights into the ways in which humans and animals can form meaningful relationships with one another" (Oxford, 2023).
-Is it to be read as "a personal document", a story of co-habitation, co-evolution, and embodied cross-species sociality, a story of biopower and bioscociality, as well as of technoscience” (EGS, 2023). -
Collaborative Works
-"Manifestly Haraway (2016) by Haraway and Wolfe combines 'Cyborg Manifesto' and 'Companion Species Manifesto'" and proposes challenging the dominant narratives of Anthropocene and Capitalocene for feminism (Oxford, 2018).
-"Beyond the Cyborg: Adventures with Donna Haraway (2013) by Grebowicz, Merrick, and Haraway" dives deeper into her work on companion species (Oxford, 2018). -
Haraway's Last Book
-"Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations (2018), offers different analyses of intimacy and kinship, as well as on environmental justice." (EGS, 2023).
-Co-edited with Adele Clarke, Prickly Paradigm (EGS, 2023).