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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). Statue of Emmeline Pankhurst, a famous suffragette, in Victoria Tower Gardens next to the Houses of Parliament, Westminster. ...
Seven of Nine, a Borg in Star Trek: Voyager The term cyborg, a portmanteau of cybernetic organism, is used to designate an organism which is a mixture of organic and mechanical (synthetic) parts. ...
In biology, hybrid has three meanings. ...
In language, a metaphor (from the Greek: metapherin) is a rhetorical trope defined as a direct comparison between two or more seemingly unrelated subjects. ...
A thought experiment (from the German term Gedankenexperiment, coined by Hans Christian Ørsted) in the broadest sense is the use of an imagined scenario to help us understand the way things really are. ...
Dehumanization is a process by which members of a group of people assert the inferiority of another group through subtle or overt acts or statements. ...
In the essay Reading Cyborgs, Writing Feminism (1988), Anne Balsamo uses the cyborg as a metaphor for the female body and identity. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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. Donna Haraway Donna Haraway, born in 1944 in Denver, Colorado, is currently a professor and former chair of the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States. ...
1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
See also
Cyberfeminism is a sub-movement of feminism that deals with female identity and feminist theory in the domain of cyberspace, i. ...
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Queer theory is an anti-essentialist theory about sex and gender (and often other aspects of identity, especially race) within the larger field of Queer studies. ...
External links - 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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