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A Cyborg Manifesto
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Essay Topics
In the first section of A Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway describes the essay as “ironic” and “blasphemous.” In what ways is this true?
While introducing A Cyborg Manifesto, Haraway admits that some parts of her essay contradict each other. Where does this happen, and what is the rhetorical effect? What are the strengths and limitations of such contradictions in her analysis?
At the time Haraway was writing A Cyborg Manifesto, feminism was in the midst of the “sex wars,” which deeply divided feminist thinkers on issues related to pornography, sex positivity, sex work, and transgender women. Haraway does not explicitly discuss these issues in her essay. How does A Cyborg Manifesto implicitly support or reject some of these ideas? How does it reflect the state of feminism in the 1980s more generally?
