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Education (1944-1970)
Donna Haraway attended high school at St. Mary’s Academy in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado. From there, she went on to study zoology with a minors in philosophy as well as English Literature at Colorado College. After graduation, Haraway studied abroad in Paris for a year on a Fulbright scholarship at the Faculté des Sciences, Université de Paris and Foundation Teilhard de Chardin in Paris. Haraway received her Ph.D. from the Department of Biology at Yale in 1970. -
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Education
Donna Haraway attended high school at St. Mary’s Academy in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado. From there, she went on to study zoology with a minors in philosophy as well as English Literature at Colorado College. After graduation, Haraway studied abroad in Paris for a year on a Fulbright scholarship at the Faculté des Sciences, Université de Paris and Foundation Teilhard de Chardin in Paris. Haraway received her Ph.D. from the Department of Biology at Yale in 1970. -
Sunrise
Donna Jeanne Haraway born on September 6, 1944 to parents Dorothy Maguire Haraway (mother) and Frank O. Haraway (father) in Denver, Colorado. -
Passing of her Mother
Dorothy M. Haraway was born in 1917. Donna J. Haraway was 16 years old when her mother passed away. -
A Cyborg, Manifesto (most known)
A published essay in the Socialist Review, became one of Haraway's most well-known works, and offered a response to the conservatism becoming increasingly popular in the 1980's. In this so-called "Cyborg Manifesto" Haraway argued that women shouldn't create connects based on identity, but instead base the groups on a certain "affinity". -
A Cyborg, Manifesto (cont'd)
She showed how Cyborgs related to everyday life. Progression as a whole for women. Donna Haraway she believe that women should be treated equal and not the typical trained, controlled, immature, materialistic, housewife. Women contributed to Science for many years, but not given credit because of how society “pictured” women. The feminist movement will continue to progress thanks to leading ladies like Donna Haraway. -
Situated Knowledges
In the essay Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective, Haraway focuses on Objectivity, as it is currently defined as “an external, disembodied point of view” that allegedly provides an absolute and, by extension, potentially irrefutable point of view on a given issue. -
Bernal Award
Donna Haraway had such good luck when it came to her accomplishments that she received the J.D. Bernal Award from the Society for Social Studies of Science. -
Cyborg Feminism
Haraway struggles that it will be a long-standing intellectual tradition to see society as an organic system not unlike that of a human body, and that the relationships in society are heavily based on dominance and the recurring notion of the oppressor and the oppressed, particularly in feminism. Science, she says, is all too happy to investigate woman and offer explanations of female roles in society yet it is also content to keep woman at arm's length in terms of inquiry and involvement. -
Ludwik Fleck Prize
Donna Haraway's book Modest_Witness(published 1996) was awarded the Ludwik Fleck Prize in 1999 by 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science). -
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Works Cited
Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields : Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology, 1976. Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, New York: Routledge, and London: Free Association Books,
Haraway, Donna. “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.” Feminist Studies, vol. 14
“Donna Haraway.” Paracosmic Immersion - Cyborg Anthropology, cyborganthropology.com/Donna_Haraway.
