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College Life
Donna Haraway triple majored in zoology, philosophy and literature at the Colorado College before moving to Paris for a year. She studied philosophies of evolution while on a Fulbright Scholarship before returning to the United States. Upon her return, she completed her PhD in the Department of Biology at Yale University in 1972. -
"From Cyborgs to Companion Species" Lecture at UC Berkeley
Donna was the 2003-2004 Avenali Chair in the Humanities at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley when she presented the lecture at this link.
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Works
The title of Donna's PhD thesis is "The Search for Organizing Relations: An Organismic Paradigm in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology" and it explores using metaphors in designing experiments in Developmental Biology. She has been described as a postmodernist, a feminist and a new-Marxist. Most of her work is related to exploring the love/hate relationships that people have with machines. -
Contributions
Donna's early work dealt with the masculine bias in science. She routinely uses the metaphor of a cyborg (part person, part machine) to explore the interactions between people and technology and the impact each has on the other. She also uses the cyborg metaphor to illustrate how the contradictions between the theories and identities of feminists should be fused. -
Contributions Continued
Her "Cyborg Manifesto" has had a significant influence on feminism and is partly of the reason that she was awarded the J.D. Bernal Award for lifetime contributions by the Society for Social Studies for Science in September, 2000. -
References
“Donna Haraway: Biography.” Fampeople.com, www.fampeople.com/cat-donna-haraway_2. Accessed 7 May 2017.
“Donna Haraway.” Cyborganthology.com, 11 Dec. 2011, cyborganthropology.com/Donna_Haraway. Accessed 7 May 2017.
“Who Is Donna Haraway?” Cultural & Crtical Theory Library, criticaltheorylibrary.blogspot.com/2010/12/who-is-donna-haraway.html. Accessed 7 May 2017. -
Major Works
Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields : Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology, 1976. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century, 1985 Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science, Routledge: New York and London, 1989. The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003. ISBN 0-9717575-8-5