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Donna Haraway

By wendyfrias4

  • Donna Haraway is born

    Donna Haraway is born
    Donna Jeanne Haraway was born on September 6, 1944, in Denver, Colorado to parents Dorothy and Frank Haraway. Her father was a sportswriter for The Denver Post, and her mother an Irish Catholic woman passed away from a heart attack when Donna was sixteen years old. She grew up in a catholic home in a white, middle-class neighborhood. Donna attended high school at St. Mary's Academy in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado. Her father was a big influence on her love for writing.

  • Education

    Education
    Donna Haraway completed her Ph.D. in biology at Yale University. She wrote a dissertation titled "The Search for Organizing Relations: An Organismic Paradigm". This essay talks about the use of metaphors in shaping experiments. This was later turned into a book and published titled "Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology".

  • Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields

    Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields
    Haraway publishes her first book "Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology". This book talks about poststructuralist, Marxist, feminist, postcolonial, and cultural studies theory to explore the political and social dimensions of science in order to reclaim it for ends other than social control.
    https://books.google.de/books/about/Crystals_Fabrics_and_Fields.html?id=ItJpQgAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

  • Manifesto for Cyborgs

    Manifesto for Cyborgs
    In 1985, Donna Haraway wrote an essay called "Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the 1980's". This essay is about the rejected adaption to boundaries between humans, animals, and machines. It hopes to make aware of traditional notions of feminism and encourage women to look and go beyond the restrictions of what has been conditioned with gender roles.
    (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiF9SBrzWoU)

  • The Haraway Reader

    The Haraway Reader
    Donna Haraway wrote the book "The Haraway Reader". It is an introduction to her thoughts. This book has a collection of previous work that she has done including "A Manifesto for Cyborgs" and "Cyborgs to Companion Species: Reconfiguring Kinship in Technoscience".

  • Donna Haraway today

    Donna Haraway today
    Now 78 years old, Donna Haraway is an American Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. An amazing philosopher who spoke about things nobody wanted to say.