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Origin
Donna was born September 4th, 1944 in Denver Colorado. Her father worked for The Denver Post as a sportswriter. Sadly, her mother passed away when she was 16 years old. She attended high school at St. Mary's Academy in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado. Her love of writing came mainly from her father but another impact on it was the end of World War II and the Cold War. -
Education
She majored in Zoology, minors in Philosophy and English, at the Colorado College. Afterwards, she moved to Paris to study evolutionary philosophy and theology at the Fondation Teilhard de Chardin. In 1972, she completed her Ph. D in biology at Yale in writing a dissertation about the use of metaphor in shaping experiments in experimental biology titled The Search for Organizing Relations: An Organismic Paradigm in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology. -
A Cyborg Manifesto
One of her publications, or key theories, that she is known for is the essay "Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism that was published 1985 to the 1980s in the Socialist Review. According to it, "there is nothing about being female that naturally binds women together into a unified category. There is not even such a state as 'being' female. -
A Cyborg Manifesto-Continued
She also explains that her Manifesto is an "effort to build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism, and materialism." Essentially, she is trying to find ways towards equality ending dominating behavior. Author Agnes Prasad's wrote a piece, Cyborg Writing as a Political Act: Reading Donna Haraway in Organization Studies, which goes into further detail on how Haraway contributes to the feminist community. -
The Cyborg
Haraway tells that the Cyborg derives from science fiction. A Cyborg is the paradigm case of the 'confusion of boundaries' and thus of boundaries as constructed-characteristics of all attempts to keep opposing fields separate (Mambrol, 2018). It serves as a basis of a new feminist relation with technology, therefore, it is more femal than male. -
Works Cited
“Donna Haraway.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 6 June 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway. Mambrol, Nasrullah. “Key Theories of Donna Haraway.” Literary Theory and Criticism, 15 Dec. 2018, literariness.org/2018/02/22/key-theories-of-donna-haraway/.