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Donna Haraway
Prof. Haraway is a distinguished Philosopher and professor Emerita at the History of Consciousness department of the University of California, Santa Cruz. She writes and teaches in science and technology, feminist theory and multi species studies. She serves as an advisor for over 60 doctoral students in several disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas and is an active participant in the Science and Justice Research Center.
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Early Life
Haraway started her education endeavour at the Academy in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado where she triple majored in zoology, philosophy and literature. She then moved to Paris and studied evolutionary philosophy and theology and finally completed her Ph.D. in biology at Yale in 1972. -
Feminist scholars
Haraway was part of a group of feminist scholars who trained as scenting but then turned to the philosophy of science to study how beliefs about gender have influenced the production of knowledge about nature. -
The Cyborg Manifesto
Her most famous writing which began as an assignment of feminist strategy for the Socialist Review after the election of Ronald Reagan and and developed into a cryptic meditation on how cybernetics and digitisation can change what it means to be male or female. -
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Major Works
Haraway, D., "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) Haraway, D., Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. New York: Routledge, 1989. Print. Haraway, D., 1988. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question In Feminism And The Privilege Of Partial Perspective. Feminist Studies, Inc.