My, is that Cyborg a little Queer? : (essay competition winner)

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Miyake, Esperanza (2004) My, is that Cyborg a little Queer? : (essay competition winner). Journal of International Women’s Studies, 5 (2). 6. ISSN 1539-8706

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Abstract

This piece of work is a response to the following question: ‘Critically assess the importance, or otherwise, of Donna Haraway's "manifesto" for early twenty-first century feminists'. Based on Stein and Plummer's outline of queer theory in their essay, "I can't even think straight": "Queer" Theory and the Missing Sexual Revolution in Sociology (Stein and Plummer 1996). This piece compares and contrasts different aspects of queer theory (sociological, ideological, political and ontological) with Haraway's 'manifesto' in order to investigate the possibilities of a cyberqueer theory: to 'queer' (as a verb) the 'cyborg'. Whilst attempting to interrelate both the notion of the 'cyborg' and 'queer theory', this piece explores feminist issues concerning gender, sexuality, identity, representation and the body. Ultimately, the piece argues how feminism might benefit from cyberqueer ideas in rethinking through these issues whilst being aware of its material ramifications.

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Miyake, Esperanza ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-7648;
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