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Birth
Donna Haraway is a Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is known for A Cyborg Manifesto (1984), an essay on collective consciousness, feminism, and technological advancement. Born September 6, 1944, in Denver, Colorado. -
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Education
Haraway majored in zoology with minors in philosophy and English at Colorado College, graduating in 1966. She then moved to Paris to study evolutionary philosophy and theology at the Fondation Teilhard de Chardin in Paris. In 1972, Haraway completed her Ph.D. in biology at Yale. -
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Major Works
Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976
Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the 1980s, Socialist Review, 80 (1985) 65–108
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science, Routledge: New York and London, 1989
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, New York: Routledge, and London: Free Association Books, 1991 -
A Cyborg Manifesto
Haraway's most famous work is "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century." The essay was first published in 1985 by the Berkely Socialist Review. It was published again as part of Haraway's book Simians, Cyborgs, and Women. “Gender, race, or class consciousness is an achievement forced on us by the terrible historical experience of the contradictory social realities of patriarchy, colonialism, racism, and capitalism.” (Haraway, 1985) -
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Major Works Continued
How Like a Leaf: A Conversation with Donna J. Haraway, Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, New York: Routledge, 1999
The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003
When Species Meet, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Durham: Duke University Press, 2016 -
A Brief Summary
The following is a brief summary of key points from Haraway's famous essay, A Cyborg Manifesto. Created by Josie Ellen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnY9TGbvIXA -
Recent Years
In a 2019 interview for the Guardian, Donna Haraway revealed she has recently turned to human-animal relations and climate change, and spoke on her recent documentary, Storytelling for Earthly Survival, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Weigel, Moira. “Feminist Cyborg Scholar Donna Haraway: 'The Disorder of Our Era Isn't Necessary'.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 20 June 2019, www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/20/donna-haraway-interview-cyborg-manifesto-post-truth.
