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Donna Haraway 1944 - Present

By herbyherb

  • Birth

    Birth
    Donna Jeanne Haraway was born in Denver, Colorado on September 6th, 1944. Her father was a sportswriter, and her mother an Irish Catholic. Unfortunately, her mother died of a heart attack when she was only 16 years old.

  • Education

    Education
    • Haraway went to a catholic school at St. Mary's Academy in Cherry Hill's Village, Colorado
    • She majored in zoology and minored in philosophy and English at Colorado College
    • Studied in evolutionary philosophy and theology at the Fondation Teilhard de Chardin in Paris
    • Got her Ph.D. at Yale in 1972 in Biology
    • Her Yale dissertation was later edited into a book titled 'Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology.'

  • A Cyborg Manifesto

    A Cyborg Manifesto
    In 1985, Haraway published an essay, 'Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the 1980s', later edited it into her book 'Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature'. She suggests that humans are becoming cyborgs with their increasing reliance on mechanical prothesis liked glasses and the internet. Also she challenges the racist male dominance on politics as she tries to imagine a world without race or gender. Woman are the same as man, and man is machine

  • The Companion Species Manifesto

    The Companion Species Manifesto
    in 2003 Harawar wrote her 'Companion Species Manifesto' in which she compares the ways humans care for their pets and how they care for other humans. She explains that humans often treat their animals with even more compassion than they treat other humans. She also says that our pets like dogs and cats are less so actual animals and more like actual "companion species" that we build relationships with. The line between animals and person has become blurred.

  • Retirement

    Retirement
    Donna Haraway has had a long and fruitful career with many works of significance. She continued to work on and develop her philosophies of the relationships and identities between people, animals, and machines. She continued to work well into the 21st century, where her most recent work or note was 'Staging with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene' in 2016. Today though, she enjoys retirement.

  • Sources:

    1. “Donna Haraway.” Wikipedia, 28 May 2023, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway.
    2. Mambrol, Nasrullah. “Key Theories of Donna Haraway.” Literary Theory and Criticism, 15 Dec. 2018, literariness.org/2018/02/22/key-theories-of-donna-haraway/.
    3. Haraway, Donna. Prickly Paradigm Shift, Chicago, 2003.
    4. Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991).