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Also known as Donna Jeanne Haraway, Donna Harraway

American philosopher, scholar in the field of science and technology studies

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  • Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously.
  • Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.
  • Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.
  • All of reality in late capitalist culture lusts to become an image for its own security.

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Key facts

Born
Donna Jeanne Haraway , ( 1944-09-06 ) September 6, 1944 (age 81) , Denver, Colorado , U.S.
Spouses
Jaye Miller ​ ( divorced ) ​ Rusten Hogness ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1975 ) ​
Awards
J. D. Bernal Award, Ludwik Fleck Prize , Robert K. Merton Award, Wilbur Cross Medal
Alma mater
Yale University , Colorado College
Influences
Nancy Hartsock , Sandra Harding , G. Evelyn Hutchinson , Robert Young , Gregory Bateson
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
Cyborgs , cyborg feminism , cyborg imagery, primatology , cross species sociality

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Encyclopedic overview

Donna Jeanne Haraway (born September 6, 1944) 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 contributed to the intersection of information technology and feminist theory, and is a 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.

Haraway taught women's studies and the history of science at the University of Hawaiʻi (1971–1974) and Johns Hopkins University (1974–1980). 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.

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