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Donna Jeanne Haraway was born in 1944 in Denver, Colorado. Her father was a sportswriter for The Denver Post and her Irish Catholic mother died when she was 16 years old.
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Donna Haraway majored in three different subjects; zoology, philosophy and literature while on a full-tuition Boettcher Scholarship at the Colorado College. After college,she then moved to Paris and studied evolutionary philosophy and theology at the Fondation Teilhard de Chardin on the Fulbright scholarship.
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Haraway's work has been criticized for being "methodologically vague" and for using "opaque" language, which often seemed to conceal meanings in a deliberate manner. This theme of criticism continues through most of her work, but was very apparent with her Cyborg Manifesto. Many people have critiqued her understanding of the scientific method as well.
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In 1976, she wrote and published Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology
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In 1985, Donna Haraway published the famous essay, "Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the 1980s" in Socialist Review.The Manifesto she published was her response to the rising conservatism and feminist movement during the 1980s in the US.
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In 1989, Haraway wrote and published Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science.
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In September 2000, she was awarded the highest honor given by the Society for Social Studies of Science which is the J.D. Bernal Prize, for her lifetime contributions to science.
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She has taught Women's Studies and the History of Science at the University of Hawaii and Johns Hopkins University. Haraway is currently a "Distinguished American Professor Emerita" in the History of Consciousness Department and in the Feminist Studies Department at the University of California.
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