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Humble Beginnings & Early On
Donna Haraway is known for being a distinct Professor in History of Feminist Studies and Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Donna Haraway was born on Sep 6, 1944 in Denver, Colorado. Early on she attended a school in Cherry Hills Village, she then went to college at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado where she was a distinct triple major in the fields of literature, philosophy, and zoology. She also received her PhD in Biology from Yale in 1970. -
Cyborg Manifesto
In 1985, Donna published “A Cyborg Manifesto: in Socialist Review”. This is her most prized possession and famous writing she is known for. This essay is also one that is included into many college level philosophy classes. She briefly describes the word “cyborg” as a metaphor in relations among humans, machines, and nature. Donna claimed that the realities of modern life included a relationship between technology and people. She claims we can no longer tell where people begin and machines end. -
Primate Vision
In early 1990 Donna Haraway published another work called “Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science”. She focused on metaphors that were direct links to primatology in which female primatologists focus on different observations that require more communication and basic survival activities. Link is attached below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLN2ToEIlwM -
Haraway's Publications
Haraway is the author of several well known publications: ”Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology”(1976), “Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science” (1989), “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century”(1991), “Simians, Cyborgs, and Women : The Reinvention of Nature (1991), and Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan©Meets_OncoMouse™ (1997). -
Honorary J.D. Bernal Award
In September of 2000, Haraway received an honorary J.D. Bernal Award for her contributions over the sequence of her career and life with great dedication to the field of Philosophy, Feminism, and Social Science. Haraway has written many publications over her life, given multiple lectures at the college level, she also continues to pursue her love of philosophy, feminism, and biology and how it applies to social sciences. -
Works Cited
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLN2ToEIlwM Landecker, Hannah. "Modest Witness@Second Millennium. FemaleMan Meets OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience." American Scientist, vol. 86, no. 3, 1998, p. 298+. Accessed 9 Aug. 2020. Malamud, Randy. "When Species Meet." Anthrozoos, vol. 21, no. 4, 2008, p. 405+. Accessed 9 Aug. 2020. Elund, Jude. "The female body in Second Life: Considerations of feminism and queer theory in two female-only spaces." Outskirts: feminisms along the edge
