ABSTRACT
In recent years there has been an emergence of interdisciplinary feminist theory that emphasizes materiality as part of a discontent with the social constructionist orthodoxy. Feminist theorists have risen to the challenge of reconceiving dualism in a variety of ways that validate the various and changeable experiences of women's embodiment by recognizing their experiences as different from each other, not just from men's. Post-constructionist, material feminist theories position themselves to take the best from the history of feminist theory without regard for the well-worn divide to address the material discursive constitution of bodies and material life. As Barbara Arneil claims that the defining feature of a third wave' of Anglo-Western feminism is a focus on differences among women, and differential embodiment. Postmodernity is not all post' or anti-modern, nor is feminism all modern. Therefore, Donna Haraway posits a post-human figure for feminists to embrace as a metaphor for the discursive material realities of being in a technological age.
