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Born
Donna J. Haraway was born September 6, 1944 and is currently an American Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States. -
Education and Dissertation
Haraway majored in Zoology at Colorado College before finishing her PhD in Biology at Yale. Her dissertation was titled "The Search for Organizing Relations: An Organismic Paradigm in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology" and was published as a book "Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields" in 1976.
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A Cyborg Manifesto
One of her most notable works, "A Cyborg Manifesto" was written and published in 1985 in the "Socialist Review." It criticizes the traditional notions of feminism, especially on identity politics. In it she writes: "The cyborg does not dream of community on the model of the organic family, this time without the oedipal project. The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust." [2] -
Primate Visions
"Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science" was published as an analysis of the gender and racial politics of primatology, the study of man's closest relatives in the animal kingdom. [3] -
J.D. Bernal Prize
In September 2000, Haraway was awarded the highest honor given by the Society for Social Studies of Science, the J.D. Bernal Prize, for lifetime contributions to the field.[2] -
RESOURCES
1) "Donna J Haraway". feministstudies.ucsc.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-03-17. 2) Donna Haraway, "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), pp.149-181. 3) Primate Visions. Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. Donna Haraway. Routledge (Routledge, Chapman and Hall) New York, 1989.
