On Menopause and Cyborgs: Or, Towards a Feminist Cyborg Politics of Menopause

On Menopause and Cyborgs: Or, Towards a Feminist Cyborg Politics of Menopause

Proposes a model and politics of menopause based upon Donna Haraway's cyborg myth. The cyborg myth-a myth that eschews universals and grand claims to true experience in favour of partiality, irony and perversity-is proposed as a solution to the boundedness of feminist politics as it confronts t...

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Veröffentlicht in:Body & society 1996-09, Vol.2 (3), p.33-52
1. Verfasser: LENG, KWOK WEI
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Cybernetics
Deconstruction
Feminism
Feminist perspectives
Feminist Theory
Menopause
Nature
Patriarchy
Political aspects
Social control
Social theory
Theoretical Problems
Women and politics
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Zusammenfassung:Proposes a model and politics of menopause based upon Donna Haraway's cyborg myth. The cyborg myth-a myth that eschews universals and grand claims to true experience in favour of partiality, irony and perversity-is proposed as a solution to the boundedness of feminist politics as it confronts the dominant medical model of menopause.
ISSN:1357-034X
1460-3632
DOI:10.1177/1357034X96002003002