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Early Life
Donna J. Haraway was born in Denver, Colorado. Her father was a writer for the Denver Post. Haraway's mother passed away when she was 16 from a heart attack. -
Learning Abroad
Though the years of her attendance are not specified, Haraway moved to Paris a year after graduating from Colorado College. While there she studied evolutionary philosophy and theology at the Fondation Teilhard de Chardin on a Fulbright scholarship. This was prior to earning her doctoral degree from Yale. -
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Personal Life
Donna Haraway married Jaye Miller, who was a gay activist throughout their marriage. The two stayed married for four years before divorcing. They stayed close after the marriage ended. Despite having moved on to new relationships with other partners, Donna and Jaye decided to all live together with their significant others in the same house in Healdsburg, California. They lived together until Jaye and his lover both died of complications from AIDS. -
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The Beginning of a Teaching Career
Haraway taught The History of Science and Women’s Studies at the University of Hawaii for three years. She then moved on to teach at Johns Hopkins University. After spending six years at that establishment, she left and decided to join the History of Consciousness program at Santa Cruz in 1980. -
Higher Learning
Donna Haraway earned her degree in Zoology and pursued minors in English and Philosophy at Colorado College through a scholarship. She then went on to complete her Ph.D in biology at Yale. This is when Haraway wrote her dissertation "The Search for Organizing Relations: An Organismic Paradigm in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology". A work that would be edited into her later writings. -
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Total Publications
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991) Modest Witness@Second Millenium. FemaleMan Meets OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience (1997) The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (2003) When Species Meet (2008) Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016) Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations (2018) -
Famous Works
Haraway is most famous for her essay which was published in 1985. “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s”. In her essay Haraway criticizes traditional values of feminism. She urged feminists to reject the limitations of traditional gender and politics. This writing is sad to be "one of the milestones in the development of feminist post-humanist theory." -
Famous Works Cont'd
In her book "Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science", Haraway discusses the tendency to masculinize the stories about "reproductive competition and sex between aggressive males and receptive females that facilitate some and preclude other types of conclusions." She also questioned the most fundamental constructions of scientific human nature stories based on primates. -
Notable Belief System
Donna Haraway is most known for her theory of cyborg and human/female relations. It is said that her "ideas have sparked an explosion of debate in areas as diverse as primatology, philosophy, and developmental biology". Haraway has garnered and critical appraise as well as awards for her contribution to the field of social science. In 2002 she was awarded the J.D. Bernal Prize, the highest honor given by the Society for Social Studies of Science. -
Present Day Life
Donna Haraway is currently a Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department and in the Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. -
Cyborg Manifesto Explained
