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Birth of Donna Haraway
Donna Jeanne Haraway was born on 6 September 1944 in Denver, Colorado. Her father was a sportswriter for the Denver Post and her mother was a very religious woman who passed away when Haraway was only 16 years old (Haraway, 2000). -
Education
Haraway graduated from St. Mary's Academy in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado and was then accepted into the Colorado College on the full-tuition Boettcher Scholarship. She majored in Zoology with minors in philosophy and English. She then completed her Ph.D. in biology at Yale in 1972 with a dissertation entitled “The Search for Organizing Relations: An Organismic Paradigm in 20th-Century Developmental Biology”(Haraway, 2000). -
"A Cyborg Manifesto"
Haraways most famous essay that was published in 1985 was Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the 1980s. This was a response to the rising conservatism during the 80's. Haraway said it “is an effort to build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism, and materialism”(Haraway, 1990). The essays she has written bring together questions of science and feminism. -
J.D. Bernal Prize
In September 2000, Haraway was awarded the highest honor given by the Society for Social Studies of Science, the J.D. Bernal Prize, for lifetime contributions to the field. The prize is an award given annually by the Society for Social Studies of Science to scholars judged to have made a distinguished contribution to the field of Science and Technology Studies (4SPrizes, 2021). -
Donna Haraway Today
Donna Haraway is currently 76 years old and resides with her spouse north of San Francisco. She is a Professor at Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Where she became the first tenured professor in feminist theory in the United States. -
References
Haraway, Donna J., How Like a Leaf: Donna J. Haraway an interview with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve. Routledge, 2000, pp. 6–7. Donna Haraway. The European Graduate School. (n.d.). https://egs.edu/biography/donna-haraway/. -
References
Haraway, Donna (1990). "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century". Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Routledge. pp. 149–181 "4S Prizes | Society for Social Studies of Science". www.4sonline.org. -
Youtube video
YouTube. (2016, May 24). Donna Haraway / Speculative Fabulation. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFGXTQnJETg.