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Birth of Donna J Haraway
Donna J Haraway was born September 6 1944 in Denver, Colorado, USA. Born to her father who was a writer for the sports column of a prominent regional newspaper called The Denver Post and her mother, a dedicated Irish Clatholic. -
Death of Haraways Mother
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Education
- Attended high school at St. Mary’s Academy in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado.
- Studied zoology at university -After her undergraduate degree in Zoology Haraway moved to Paris and studied evolutionary philosophy with theology at the Fondation Teilhard de Chardin.
- Hathaway then went on to complete her Ph.D. in biology at Yale in 1970 her dissertation was the original iteration of The Search for Organizing Relations: An Organismic Paradigm in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology.
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Publication Crystals, Fabrics and Fields
Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. Originally this was Haraways Phd dissertation written in 1970 which was later re-written and published as a book. -
Publication - Manifesto for Cyborgs
Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s", Socialist Review, 80 (1985) This is one of her more prominent works which bought her work in the the lime light for urging women and feminists to move past gender bias and intergrate more in to politics, science and other male dominated fields. -
Video analisis of Cyborg Manifesto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi9gnXSMFwc This 27 min video explores some of the most important concepts put foward in Haraways book Cyborg Manifesto . What is a Cyborg
Cyborg as a Mefaphor for disconnection from animal and earth
Morality of 'QueeR' behavior in respect to repoduction
Physical, Non-Physical, animal and human bluring lines
Feminisim
Common idea of feminism
Post feminism through liberation from repression socially, economically and scientifically
Uniting universal themes
