An Analysis of Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto - Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century

Haraway's ¿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 a socialist, postmodern, and anti-identitarian politics.

List of contents

Ways in to the Text Who is 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

About the author

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.

Summary

Haraway’s ‘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 a socialist, postmodern, and anti-identitarian politics.

Product details

• Authors: Christien Garcia, Rebecca Pohl
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781912453115
• ISBN: 978-1-912453-11-5
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 100 g
• Illustrations: Farb., s/w. Abb.
• Series: The Macat Library; The Macat Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas