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A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the
Late Twentieth Century - Donna Haraway
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Haraway describes a cyborg as “a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction”. She suggests that today, we all are cyborgs and describes a pleasure in the confusion of boundaries and imagines that a world without gender would be closer to a utopian existence. The world we have created is no longer organic; instead, she admires the ambiguity between natural and constructed. The cyborg myth is “about transgressed boundaries, potent fusions, and dangerous possibilities”. Haraway also explains how work is becoming feminized regardless of the person’s gender. For something to be feminized is to make it vulnerable, vulnerability is experienced to everyone in the work force because employment has become less stable. In many countries women are preferred employees and act as a major source of income for their families. Haraway describes our bodies as “maps of power and identity”. Cyborg metaphors help articulate two arguments: the first, construction of universal, totalizing theory as a key mistake that misses reality; second, taking responsibility for social relations of science.
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I found Thornham's article interesting. I personally find being called a "chick" really offensive. The issue is, it is so engraved into our culture that its unavoidable. I feel like if you were to tell people that using words like "chick" or "broad" were inappropriate, and offensive, they would think your being overly sensitive or over reacting. Being a "chick" to me implies that a woman is unintelligent, attractive, childlike, or a piece of meat. It is curious to me why these sorts of analogies do not exist towards men.