jan 6, 2009 - Donna Haraway
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Donna Haraway is a "feminist, rather loosely a neo-Marxist and a postmodernist" that was born in Denver, Colorado on September 5, 1944 (Young, 172). She completed her education at Colorado College and received her Ph.D. from Yale. She is known for her contributions to the field of Social Studies of Science. Some of her publications include: Primate Visions, "A Cyborg Manifesto," Cyborg feminism, "Situated Knowledges" and "I'd rather be a Cyborg than a goddess" (http://criticaltheorylibrary.blogspot.com 2017). She is a Distinguished Professor Emerita at University of California Santa Cruz and worked in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies departments. (ucsc.edu 2017) Haraway has explored her ideas in a multitude of fields, but her most recent work concludes that humans are not here to rule over the land and animals but as a “companion species” to them (minnesotareview.dukejournals.org 2017). Haraway admits in an interview, “I’ve never been humanist; we live in a huge nonhuman world. There are a lot of people who think that the most fabulous things about the world are the other critters. It’s that kind of epistemophilia, that kind of relentless curiosity that I think is part of people who do good science” (minnesotareview.dukejournals.org 2017) She claims herself to be a historian of science influences how she has been involved in so many fields of science.
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http://criticaltheorylibrary.blogspot.com/2010/12/who-is-donna-haraway.html
https://histcon.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=haraway
http://minnesotareview.dukejournals.org/content/2010/73-74/133.full.pdf
Young, Robert M, "Science, Ideology & Donna Haraway", in Science as Culture, 15.3 (1992): 165-207.
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