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Donna J. Haraway

ドナ・ジェーン・ハラウェイ

Donna Jeanne Haraway

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1944-09-06 （Denver, Colorado, USA）
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Religion
Catholicism (influential in upbringing; presently non-religious)
Residence History
Colorado (birthplace) → Santa Cruz, California (work/residence) → North of San Francisco, USA (residence)

Career

Occupations
professor, thinker, scholar, author
Active Years
1971-
Affiliations
University of California, Santa Cruz (History of Consciousness Program, Feminist Studies), University of Hawaiʻi (taught women's studies and history of science), Johns Hopkins University (faculty)
Influenced By
Nancy Hartsock, Sandra Harding, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Robert M. Young, Gregory Bateson
Influenced
Scholars of cyborg feminism and posthumanism, Contemporary art world (theoretical influence)

Education

Colorado College
Zoology (major); minors in Philosophy and English
Degree: 学士
Country: United States
Attended on a full-tuition Boettcher Scholarship
Fondation Teilhard de Chardin (Paris)
Studies in evolutionary philosophy and theology
Country: France
Studied on a Fulbright scholarship
Yale University
Biology (Ph.D. program)
Degree: Ph.D.
Year of Graduation: 1972
Country: United States
PhD dissertation later published as a book

Awards

Ludwik Fleck Prize
1999
Work: Modest_Witness (Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium...)
Organization: Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
Result: 受賞
J. D. Bernal Award
2000
Organization: Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
Result: 受賞
Robert K. Merton Award
1992
Work: Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science
Organization: American Sociological Association (Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology)
Result: 受賞
Wilbur Cross Medal
2017
Organization: Yale Graduate School
Result: 受賞
Nuevo León Alfonso Reyes Prize
2021
Organization: Tec de Monterrey / Mexico
Result: 受賞
Erasmus Prize
2025
Organization: Praemium Erasmianum Foundation
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

A Cyborg Manifesto

1985 Essay / Academic 32 pages

An essay that uses the cyborg metaphor to challenge fixed identities and binaries, linking technology, feminism, and capitalism to propose new political imaginaries.

cyborgsfeminismposthumanismdeconstruction of identity
Translations
  • Japanese translations of the essay exist in various anthologies

Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science

1989 Scholarly book / History of science & feminist critique

Re-examines primatology through a feminist lens, critiquing how narratives about gender and race are constructed within scientific discourse.

primatologygenderracenarratives of science
Translations
  • Has been translated into other languages including Japanese (varies by edition)

Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience

1997 Scholarly book / Critique

Examines feminism and technoscience, critiquing the politics of knowledge production and scientific objectivity. Award-winning.

feminismtechnosciencepolitics of knowledge

The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness

2003 Manifesto / Scholarly

Discusses multispecies cohabitation (notably with dogs) to argue for ethics of significant otherness and cohabitation across species.

cohabitationmultispecies relationsethics

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

2016 Scholarly book / Theory

Advocates for making kin across species and nonhuman beings to respond collectively and imaginatively to planetary-scale problems.

making kinresponses to the Anthropocenespeculative fabulation

Bibliography

  • 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)
  • Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991)
  • Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©Meets_OncoMouse™ (1997)
  • The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (2003)
  • When Species Meet (2007)
  • Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016)
  • Manifestly Haraway (2016)
  • Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations (2018, co-edited)

Adaptations

  • Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival (documentary film by Fabrizio Terranova)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
interdisciplinary/theoretical essaysmetaphorical and fabulatory writing (speculative fabulation)critical and fragmentary argumentation
Recurring Motifs
cyborg imagerymultispecies relationssituated knowledgesmaking kin

Legacy

Haraway has had a major impact on feminist theory, STS (science and technology studies), and environmental/posthuman thought, leaving a theoretical legacy that extends into contemporary art and public intellectual discourse.

Academic Societies

  • Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)

Archives

  • Archival materials likely held at University of California, Santa Cruz related repositories

In Popular Culture

  • Named among the most influential people in the contemporary art world by ArtReview (2017); extensive influence on art and cultural practice

Quotes

  • I notice if I have cited nothing but white people, if I have erased indigenous people, if I forget non-human beings... Race, sex, class, region, sexuality, gender, species — I know how fraught all those categories are, but I think those categories still do important work.
    Source: Interview (The Guardian, 2019 and related interviews) (2019)
  • Situated knowledges allow us to become answerable for what we learn how to see.
    Source: Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective (1988)

Trivia

  • Considered among the first tenured professors in feminist theory in the United States.
  • Raised with Catholic education by nuns; has stated she is no longer religious.
  • 'A Cyborg Manifesto' remains a highly influential essay in discussions of feminism and technology.