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Donna Haraway
Date of Birth
September 6th 1944
Date of Death
Not available
Still alive -
The Cyborg manifesto
First published by the Socialist review. no. 80, 1985 -
Summary of Philosopher's Contribution Pt 1
Donna Haraway made a significant contribution to both science and humanity with the cyborg manifesto, which was a paper written to discuss how humanity is becoming indistinguishable from machines because daily lives are becoming integrated with cybernetic enhancements, for example how we use modern medicine to supplement failing bodily functions. -
Summary of Philosopher's Contribution Pt 2
Donna Haraway's paper showed humanity's infatuation with military improvement and advancement in the technological sense. This was a feministic and socialistic paper that called into question at which point would humanity finally stop advancement along this path, and whether humans would become cyborgs in the most literal sense due to its continued progression. -
Summary of Philosopher's Contribution Pt 3
This paper helped push forth feminist ideals and the movement itself by showing that identity is contradictory to gender, race, and class. By these same tokens, Donna Haraway also stated that true unity can be a negative, as it can exclude one's individual identity for the cohesion of a group. -
Summary of Philosopher's Contribution Pt 4
An especially important topic in Donna Haraway's paper focused on how communication can be used to bind women to specific roles, particularly on keeping women in society's predetermined spaces, including keeping them at home and convincing them that their lives are incomplete without raising a family, whether that was what they themselves wanted or not. -
Citations
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/apus/reader.action?docID=1092678&ppg=224
The Cyborg Manifesto within Coming to Terms (RLE Feminist Theory) : Feminism, Theory, Politics
Chapter. 14 pages. 174-204 -
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