ABSTRACT
Haraway aims to extend the tradition of socialist feminism in a way that incorporates the insights of postmodernism without sacrificing the capacity to anticipate a gender-free feminist future. In a spirit that is both playful and iconoclastic, she invokes the idea of a cyborg—a being that is part machine and part organism—to characterize social reality and to provide a basis for socialist feminist critique and politics. Both human and animal, both organism and machine, both physical and spiritual—never altogether on one side or the other—the cyborg enables us to think beyond familiar and confining dichotomies and social theories.
