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Contribution to Philosophy
Donna Haraway has been a leading force in feminist theory as well as the study of human-machine relationship and human-animal relationships. Although Haraway's works have received much criticism since their publications her new views on the world have caused a shift in how feminism in the field of science contributes to findings. -
Major Works
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Birth
Donna Haraway was born in Denver, Colorado to a Irish-Catholic mother and a writer father. -
Mother dies
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The Search for Organizing Relations: An Orgasmic Paradigm in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology
This paper which was later published as a book entitled Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology. This paper was Haraway's dissertation that she published at the end of her studies at Yale and afterwards received her PhD in biology. The paper was centered around experiments in experimental biology. -
"Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the 1980s"
This essay, published in the Socialist Review, became one of Haraway's most well-known works, and offered a response to the conservatism becoming increasingly popular in the 1980's. In this so-called "Cyborg Manifesto" Haraway argued that women shouldn't create connects based on identity, but instead base the groups on a certain "affinity". -
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science
In this essay Haraway focuses on the study of primatology and how male scientists in the field tend to masculinize the findings especially in the area of reproduction. Haraway states that female scientists in this field focus more on areas that involvemore communication in an effort to offer new perspectives that can replace the currently accepted perspectives. -
J.D. Bernal Award
Haraway was granted this award by the Society for the Social Study of Science for her contributions for this field.