Donna haraway 2006 (cropped)

Donna Haraway September 6, 1944

By mkempkes

  • Born

    Born in Denver, CO

  • Education

    Donna Haraway attended Colorado College, majoring in Zoology and minoring in Philosophy and English. She went on to complete her Ph.D in Biology with her dissertation titled The Search for Organizing Relations: An Organismic Paradigm in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology.

  • Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature Citation

    Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature Citation
    Haraway, D. (1991). Simians, Cyborgs, and women: The reinvention of nature. Routledge.
    The Cyborg Manifesto

  • Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature

    Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
    Donna Haraway’s “Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature” is a revisitation of her earlier work “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century”. Haraway uses the symbolism of the human-machine hybrid as a metaphor for escaping the traditional social boundaries of class, gender, and culture to illustrate a self-admittedly utopian society in which we can exist outside of those socially limiting designators.

  • Simians, Cyborgs, and Women Continued

    Simians, Cyborgs, and Women Continued
    Haraway uses this imagery to challenge the binary, duality within the established ideas of human nature, instead suggesting and even advocating the fluid nature of the individual as opposed to generalizations used to paint a set standard for a given group. She further emphasized the importance of understanding the individual for a better understanding of scientific knowledge, stating that all knowledge is situated and partial, which opposes the idea of an objective, detached observer.

  • Simians, Cyborgs, and Women Continued

    Simians, Cyborgs, and Women Continued
    Haraway‘s analysis on Feminist Technoscience integrates feminist theory with the study of technology and science, highlighting how developments in both are influenced by social and gender dynamics. Because of this, she advocates for more women, especially feminists, to contribute to these fields to help broaden the perspectives of research in those areas as she sees the intrinsic value in the different points of view afforded by individuals of varying demographics.