Cyborg feminism
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Cyborg feminism is a sub-movement of feminism that uses the notion of a cyborg, machine-organism hybrid, to explore feminism. It is often used as a metaphor for female identity and feminist thought or as a thought-experiment (eg. to investigate what happens to gender in a dehumanizing body).
In the essay Reading Cyborgs, Writing Feminism (1988), Anne Balsamo uses the cyborg as a metaphor for the female body and identity.
Donna Haraway, in her essay A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century which is part of her book Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991) uses the cyborg metaphor to explain how fundamental contradictions in feminist theory and identity should be conjoined, rather than resolved, similar to the fusion of machine and organism in cyborgs. Simply put, explore personal affinity not categorical identity.
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- A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
- A discussion of cyborg feminism at the Purdue University website
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