In Defense of the Cyborg Woman: Reappraising Anne McCaffrey’s The Ship Who Sang
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Due to the mutually reinforcing link between technology and the masculinist ideology, feminist theories have maintained a fraught relationship to technology. This tendency is mirrored by women’s science fiction, which has a long and rich tradition of dystopian critique yet suffers from a dearth of positive imaginings of women’s relationship to technology and occasionally verges on uncritical technophobia. Drawing attention to the need to envision an alternative relationship between women and technology, this article revisits the concept of cyborg proposed in Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” and examines Anne McCaffrey’s The Ship Who Sang as a flawed yet meaningful attempt at a cyborg identity and a positive relationship between women and technology. It argues that the traditional femininity of the cyborg protagonist and the conventional plot centering her romantic quest of the novel function to subvert the norms of gender, technology, and their relationship.
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Due to the mutually reinforcing link between technology and the masculinist ideology, feminist theories have maintained a fraught relationship to technology. This tendency is mirrored by women’s science fiction, which has a long and rich tradition of dystopian critique yet suffers from a dearth of positive imaginings of women’s relationship to technology and occasionally verges on uncritical technophobia. Drawing attention to the need to envision an alternative relationship between women and technology, this article revisits the concept of cyborg proposed in Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” and examines Anne McCaffrey’s The Ship Who Sang as a flawed yet meaningful attempt at a cyborg identity and a positive relationship between women and technology. It argues that the traditional femininity of the cyborg protagonist and the conventional plot centering her romantic quest of the novel function to subvert the norms of gender, technology, and their relationship.
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