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Donna J. Haraway “ A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century ”

Donna J. Haraway “ A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century ”. Lynn Randolph, Cyborg (1989). 1) Cyborg = metaphor for hybrid state of feminism and reality. “ Leaky boundaries ” should be embraced…responsibly.

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Donna J. Haraway “ A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century ”

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  1. Donna J. Haraway“A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century”

  2. Lynn Randolph, Cyborg (1989)

  3. 1) Cyborg = metaphor for hybrid state of feminism and reality • “Leaky boundaries” should be embraced…responsibly

  4. 2) Identity politics disrupted in favor of postmodern coalition • Anti-essentialist • Pro-“oppositional consciousness”

  5. 3) Simultaneously embraces and cautions against technoscience • “New technologies”… toward domination? Or blasphemous liberation via coalition? • We must understand both perspectives at once

  6. 4) Requires regeneration, not rebirth “I’d rather be a cyborg than a goddess.”

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