Tuesday, 17 February 2009

What are the main ideas in Donna Haraway's: A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science , Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s?

In this
article (written in the late twentieth century), Haraway uses theof a cyborg, a creation that is
both human and machine. She explains that "we are cyborgs." In other words, the author
rejects the idea that we are firmly one thing or another. Instead, she writes that the article
is an "argument for pleasure in the confusion of boundaries." She calls for an erasure
of strict boundaries. Going back to the idea of a cyborg, she writes that the cyborg is a
creation of a world that has moved beyond the idea of gender. 

Haraway argues
that three distinctions used in the past now longer make sensethe distinction between human and
animal, human and machine, and men and women. Though the definitions of "man" and
"woman" have traditionally split genders, the author argues for a redefining of gender
based on affinity.

Taking on the epistemology of feminism and gender, or the
way in which people understand these concepts, the author challenges the idea of essentialism
(the idea...

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