1st Edition
An Analysis of Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
Haraway’s ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ is a key postmodern text and is widely taught in many disciplines as one of the first texts to embrace technology from a leftist and feminist perspective using the metaphor of the cyborg to champion socialist, postmodern, and anti-identitarian politics. Until Haraway’s work, few feminists had turned to theorizing science and technology and thus her work quite literally changed the terms of the debate. This article continues to be seen as hugely influential in the field of feminism, particularly postmodern, materialist, and scientific strands. It is also a precursor to cyberfeminism and posthumanism and perhaps anticipates the development of digital humanities.
Ways in to the text
Who was Donna Haraway?
What does A Cyborg Manifesto say?
Why does A Cyborg Manifesto matter?
Section 1: Influences
Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context
Module 2: Academic Context
Module 3: The Problem
Module 4: The Author's Contribution
Section 2: Ideas
Module 5: Main Ideas
Module 6: Secondary Ideas
Module 7: Achievement
Module 8: Place in the Author's Work
Section 3: Impact
Module 9: The First Responses
Module 10: The Evolving Debate
Module 11: Impact and Influence Today
Module 12: Where Next?
Glossary of Terms
People Mentioned in the Text
Works Cited
Biography
Before joining English, American Studies and Creative Writing in 2014 as Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, Dr Rebecca Pohl completed my PhD at Manchester in 2013. Previously she studied in Potsdam, Berlin and London, and was junior lecturer at the University of Stuttgart.
