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Early Life
Donna Haraway was born on born September 6, 1944 in Denver, Colorado. Haraway majored in zoology at Colorado college, and she minored in philosophy and English. Then, she later moved to Paris to study evolutionary philosophy and theology. In 1972, Haraway got her PhD in biology at Yale. -
A Manifesto for Cyborgs
In 1985, Haraway published her most famous essay called "A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s". Ms. Haraway has many published books. Most of Haraway's earlier work was focused on male bias in the scientific community. She has won may awards such as J. D. Bernal Award and Ludwik Fleck Prize. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59N5xwmw5x0&feature=emb_logo(https://www.timetoast.com) -
A Cyborg Manifesto
This paper is Haraway's most famous article. The article discusses conservatism in the 1980s. Haraway talks about a cyborg ideally being genderless, race-less, more collective and having a peaceful civilization. The essay discusses "an effort to build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism, and materialism." -
Primate Visions
Haraway wrote another paper titled: Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science in 1990. This essay mainly focused on the science of primatology. She discusses an alternative perspective to the accepted theories that continuously change the way human nature stories are developed. -
Current
Now Ms. Haraway is a professor at the University of California in the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department. She lives in San Francisco with her partner Rusten Hogness.
