Donna Haraway

Donna Haraway
Donna Haraway
	Donna Haraway (2006)
Born	Donna Jeanne Haraway; September 6, 1944 (age 79); Denver, Colorado
Spouses	Jaye Miller (divorced); Rusten Hogness (m. 1975);
Awards	J. D. Bernal Award, Ludwik Fleck Prize, Robert K. Merton Award, Wilbur Cross Medal
Academic background
Alma mater	Yale University, Colorado College
Influences	Nancy Hartsock, Sandra Harding, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Robert Young, Gregory Bateson
Academic work
Discipline	Zoology, Biology, Science and Politics, Technology, Feminist Theory, Medicine Studies, Animal Studies, Animal-Human Relationships
Main interests	Feminist studies, ecofeminism, posthumanism
Notable works	A Cyborg Manifesto, Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science, Staying with the Trouble, "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective"
Notable ideas	cyborg, cyborg feminism, cyborg imagery, primatology, cross species sociality

Donna J. Haraway is an American professor emerita in the history of consciousness and feminist studies departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology studies. She has also contributed to the intersection of information technology and feminist theory, and is a leading scholar in contemporary ecofeminism. Her work criticizes anthropocentrism, emphasizes the self-organizing powers of nonhuman processes, and explores dissonant relations between those processes and cultural practices, rethinking sources of ethics.^[2]

Haraway has taught women's studies and the history of science at the University of Hawaii (1971-1974) and Johns Hopkins University (1974-1980).^[3] She began working as a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1980 where she became the first tenured professor in feminist theory in the United States.^[4] Haraway's works have contributed to the study of both human–machine and human–animal relations.

Her work has sparked debate in primatology, philosophy, and developmental biology.^[5] Haraway participated in a collaborative exchange with the feminist theorist Lynn Randolph from 1990 to 1996. Their engagement with specific ideas relating to feminism, technoscience, political consciousness, and other social issues, formed the images and narrative of Haraway's book Modest_Witness for which she received the Society for Social Studies of Science's (4S) Ludwik Fleck Prize in 1999.^[6]^[7] She was also awarded the Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology's Robert K. Merton award in 1992 for her work Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science.^[8] In 2017, Haraway was awarded the Wilbur Cross Medal, one of the highest honors for alumni of Yale University.^[9]

Biography[edit]

Early life[edit]

Donna Jeanne Haraway was born on September 6, 1944, in Denver, Colorado. Her father, Frank O. Haraway, was a sportswriter for The Denver Post and her mother, Dorothy Mcguire Haraway, who came from an Irish Catholic background, died from a heart attack when Haraway was 16 years old.^[10] Haraway attended high school at St. Mary's Academy in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado.^[11] Although she is no longer religious, Catholicism had a strong influence on her as she was taught by nuns in her early life. The impression of the eucharist influenced her linkage of the figurative and the material.^[12]

Education[edit]

Haraway majored in zoology, with minors in philosophy and English at the Colorado College, on the full-tuition Boettcher Scholarship.^[13] After college, Haraway moved to Paris and studied evolutionary philosophy and theology at the Fondation Teilhard de Chardin on a Fulbright scholarship.^[14] She completed her Ph.D. in biology at Yale in 1972 writing a dissertation about the use of metaphor in shaping experiments in experimental biology titled The Search for Organizing Relations: An Organismic Paradigm in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology.^[15] Her dissertation was later edited into a book and published under the title Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology.^[16]

Later work[edit]

Haraway was the recipient of several scholarships. In 1999, Haraway received the Society for Social Studies of Science's (4S) Ludwik Fleck Prize. In September 2000, Haraway was awarded the Society for Social Studies of Science's highest honor, the J. D. Bernal Award, for her "distinguished contributions" to the field.^[17] Haraway's most famous essay was published in 1985: "A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the 1980s"^[18] and was characterized as "an effort to build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism, and materialism".

In Haraway's thesis, "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective" (1988), she means to expose the myth of scientific objectivity. Haraway defined the term "situated knowledges" as a means of understanding that all knowledge comes from positional perspectives.^[19] Our positionality inherently determines what it is possible to know about an object of interest.^[19] Comprehending situated knowledge "allows us to become answerable for what we learn how to see".^[20] Without this accountability, the implicit biases and societal stigmas of the researcher's community are twisted into ground truth from which to build assumptions and hypothesis.^[19] Haraway's ideas in "Situated Knowledges" were heavily influenced by conversations with Nancy Hartsock and other feminist philosophers and activists.^[21]

Her book Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989) critically focuses on primate research through a feminist lens in order to understand how heterosexual ideology is reflected in primatology.

Currently,^{[as of?]} Haraway is an American professor emerita in the history of consciousness and feminist studies departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States.^[22] She lives North of San Francisco with her partner Rusten Hogness.^[23] Haraway has stated that she tries to incorporate collective thinking and all perspectives into her work: "I notice if I have cited nothing but white people, if I have erased indigenous people, if I forget non-human beings, etc. ... You know, I run through some old-fashioned, klutzy categories. Race, sex, class, region, sexuality, gender, species ... I know how fraught all those categories are, but I think those categories still do important work."^[24]

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2024/05/04

The Happiness Project, Tenth Anniversary Edition: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun eBook : Rubin, Gretchen: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store

Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World : Rubin, Gretchen: Amazon.com.au: Books

2024/05/03

Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the "Death of the Subject": Terada, Rei: 9780674011274: Amazon.com: Books

Haraway, Donna. 2008. When Species Meet PDF | PDF

2024/05/02

Donna Haraway - Wikipedia

Donna Haraway

Biography[edit]

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Later work[edit]

Donna Haraway
Donna Haraway (2006)
Born	Donna Jeanne Haraway September 6, 1944 (age 79) Denver, Colorado
Spouses	Jaye Miller (divorced) ^[1] Rusten Hogness (m. 1975)
Awards	J. D. Bernal Award, Ludwik Fleck Prize, Robert K. Merton Award, Wilbur Cross Medal

Academic background
Alma mater	Yale University, Colorado College
Influences	Nancy Hartsock, Sandra Harding, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Robert Young, Gregory Bateson
Academic work
Discipline	Zoology, Biology, Science and Politics, Technology, Feminist Theory, Medicine Studies, Animal Studies, Animal-Human Relationships
Main interests	Feminist studies, ecofeminism, posthumanism
Notable works	A Cyborg Manifesto, Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science, Staying with the Trouble, "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective"
Notable ideas	cyborg, cyborg feminism, cyborg imagery, primatology, cross species sociality