“Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.”

—  Donna Haraway , book A Cyborg Manifesto

"A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women : The Reinvention of Nature (1991), pp.149-181.

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