ABSTRACT
Changes in technology have been inseparable from changes in the nature of the economy, work, and everyday life, Donna Haraway argues. The primary readership for the text when Haraway first published it was probably people already engaged in feminist theory and politics and who would have been at least somewhat versed in the current debates and the language of those debates. For example, the difference between “radical feminism”* and “socialist feminism” is important to understanding the text, although it is possible to infer the differences just by reading carefully. Haraway’s stated intention to write an “ironic” and “blasphemous” political myth partly influences the style of the text, as does the fact that she is writing a “manifesto.” She appeals to the reader quite often with collective pronouns, moves between tones, and uses some memorable, aphoristic turns of phrase: “Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.”
