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Born
Upbringing in an Irish Catholica background, with her parents Frank and Dorothy Haraway. Both appear to have passed around 1960 when Donna Was only 16, reports suggest tragically died of a heart attack. Cite:
“Donna Haraway.” People.ucsc.edu, people.ucsc.edu/~haraway/daughter.html. Accessed 3 Oct. 2022. -
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Professor at the University of Hawaii
In History of Science and Women’s Studies. -
PhD in Biology
The Colorado College received a Boettcher Foundation scholarship. "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”, traversing the fields—and departments—of biology, philosophy, and history of science and medicine." Cite: “Donna Haraway.” The European Graduate School, egs.edu/biography/donna-haraway/. -
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Professor at Johns Hopkins University
In History of Science and Women’s Studies. -
Professor Emerita, at University of California
History of Consciousness program at Santa Cruz, CA -
Most Notable Works: A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s
A book that raised a proposed lens of a social feministic theory through machines and humans. Ideally, she illustrates we should use technology to empower each individual rather than allowing realties to be collapsed on stereotypes propped up by society &/or standards. Cite:
Ahmad, Nour “We Are All Cyborgs: How Machines Can Be a Feminist Tool.” IMS, www.mediasupport.org/navigating-a-changing-world/we-are-all-cyborgs-how-machines-can-be-a-feminist-tool/. -
Awarded the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
"In September 2000, Haraway was awarded the highest honor given by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), the J. D. Bernal Award, for lifetime contributions to the field." Cite:
Ebooks, Critical Theory. “Who Is Donna Haraway ?” Criticaltheorylibrary.blogspot.com, criticaltheorylibrary.blogspot.com/2010/12/who-is-donna-haraway.html. Accessed 3 Oct. 2022. -
Present
Today Haraway is seen contributing to ideas and debates on primatology, philosophy, and developmental biology within our societies and gender. A key contributor to the socialist feminism movements. Generally seen as a Marxist, which she has embraced on certain occasions, Donna led sociological conversations alternative Enlightenment ways of thinking. On reason why men should not always speak for women. Similarly, same principals go toward majority speaking for the minority.