-
Period: to
Life Summary
Donna J. Haraway (born September 6, 1944) is an American Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States.[1] She is a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology studies, described in the early 1990s as a "feminist, rather loosely a postmodernist".[2] Haraway is the author of numerous foundational books and essays that bring together questions of science and feminism, -
Period: to
Early Teens and College
Haraway attended high school at St. Mary's Academy in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado. Haraway majored in zoology, with minors in philosophy and English at the Colorado College, on the full-tuition Boettcher Scholarship. After college, Haraway moved to Paris and studied evolutionary philosophy and theology at the Foundation Teilhard de Chardin on a Fulbright scholarship. -
Donna Haraway Born
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, died when Haraway was 16 years old. -
Donna Haraway Born
She was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. Her father was a sports reporter who showed her that writing can be simultaneously pleasurable but a lot of work.Her mother, Dorothy Haraway, communicated with Donna the trouble and strength of belief and commitment. -
Period: to
Early childhood to early college
Haraway attended high school at St. Mary's Academy in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado. Haraway majored in zoology, with minors in philosophy and English at the Colorado College, on the full-tuition Boettcher Scholarship.[16] After college, Haraway moved to Paris and studied evolutionary philosophy and theology at the Fondation Teilhard de Chardin on a Fulbright scholarship. -
Published first article while achieving PH.D
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, later edited into a book and published under the title Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology. -
Published the "Cyborg Manifesto" after receiving PH.D
In 1985, Haraway published the essay "Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the 1980s" in Socialist Review. For Haraway, the Manifesto offered a response to the rising conservatism during the 1980s in the United States at a critical juncture at which feminists, had to acknowledge their situatedness within what she terms the "informatics of domination. -
Published famous essay "Manifesto for Cyborgs"
In 1985, Haraway published the essay "Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the 1980s" in Socialist Review. Although most of Haraway's earlier work was focused on emphasizing the masculine bias in scientific culture, she has also contributed greatly to feminist narratives of the twentieth century. -
"Primate Vision" - Donna Harawy's 2nd book
In charting the history of primatology, the study of apes and monkeys, Donna Haraway questions the objectivity of science' and the culture-based assumptions it makes about gender, race and the natural' world. This book should be of interest to advanced students of sociology and social anthropology, history of science, women's studies and cultural studies. -
Published 2nd book, "Primate Visions"
Haraway published her second book: Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1990), she focused on the metaphors and narratives that direct the science of primatology. She asserted that there is a tendency to masculinize the stories about "reproductive competition and sex between aggressive males and receptive females [that] facilitate some and preclude other types of conclusions". -
Haraway published "Simians, Cyborgs, and Woman"
In her book Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, 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. Haraway's "Manifesto" has considerably influenced the fields of feminism, science studies, and critical theory since its original publication. The manifesto is also an important feminist critique of capitalism. -
Published famous controversial essay "Situated Knowledges"
Haraway published her second essay: Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective which shed light on Haraway's vision for a feminist science. Haraway offers a critique of the feminist intervention into masculinized traditions of scientific rhetoric and the concept of objectivity. The essay identifies the metaphor that gives shape to the traditional feminist critique as a polarization. -
Received the J.D. Bernal Award
In September 2000, Haraway was awarded the Society for Social Studies of Science's highest honor, the J. D. Bernal Award, for her "distinguished contributions" to the field. -
Elected Fellowship of British Academy
Donna Haraway, distinguished professor emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz, has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy. She is one of 76 new fellows to be elected this year, joining a community of more than 1,400 scholars who currently make up the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
