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Donna Haraway (Sept 6, 1944-Present)
Donna was born in Denver, CO and is currently a Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department and in the Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz -
Education
At Colorado College Donna study Zoology and Philosophy and received a Boettcher Foundation scholarship. She then continued to complete her PhD in Biology at Yale in 1972 with a dissertation entitled “The Search for Organizing Relations: An Organismic Paradigm in 20th-Century Developmental Biology”. -
Teaching
Teachings included history of science and women’s studies at the University of Hawaii (1971-1974) and at Johns Hopkins University (1974–80), she joined the History of Consciousness program at Santa Cruz in 1980. -
“A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s”
One of many, but Donna most famous essay she wrote. Her essay underlined two main arguments. 1) was production of universal, totalizing theory is a major mistake that misses most of reality 2) was taking responsibility for the social relations of science and technology means refusing an anti-science metaphysics a demonology of technology and so means embracing the skillful task of reconstructing the boundaries of daily life in partial connection with others in communication with all of our parts -
Primat Visions
Her second book that was published after "The Cyborg Manifesto". called "Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science" which maps out the primate studies over the course of history and across the boundaries of several disciplines. Haraway denies any attempt to present a non-biased or objective study of the intellectual history of primate studies. -
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women The Reinvention of Nature
Yet another book published by Donna Haraway that thoroughly analyzes accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs. -
Awards
Haraway was awarded the J.D. Bernal Prize by the Society for Social Studies of Science, for lifetime contributions to the field