Donna J. Haraway 1944-Present

By brynnacruz

  • Biography of Donna

    Donna Haraway was born in 1944 in Denver, CO. While attending Colorado Collede, she majored in Zoology with minors in philosophy and English. She then went on to receive her Ph.D. in Biology from Yale in 1972. She wrote her dissertation about the metaphor usage in shaping experimental biology, she titled this, "The Search for Organizing Relations: An Organismic Paradigm in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology"

  • A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s

    Donna Haraway published her most famous essay in 1985. She released this essay to be "an effort to build and ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism, and materialism." She states in her manifesto that she created the cyborg to be a creature of social reality as well as a created of fiction.

  • Primate Visions: Gender, Race and Nature in the World of Modern Science

    Haraway published this essay in 1989. This essay focuses on research of primates and primatology. She also hoped that this essay would help in changing the thoughts of western narratives about racial and sexual differences, as well as reproductive thoughts as well.

  • Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

    Donna J. Haraway published this book in 2016, which was in the middle of a ecological devastation spiral. In this book, she offers new ways to recreate our relationship with earth and its inhabitants. She says learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on this damaged earth.