Mother Earth, the Cyborg, and the Queer: Ecofeminism and (More) Questions of Identity

@article{Sandilands1997MotherET,
  title={Mother Earth, the Cyborg, and the Queer: Ecofeminism and (More) Questions of Identity},
  author={Catriona Sandilands},
  journal={Feminist Formations},
  year={1997},
  volume={9},
  pages={18-40}
}
From one perspective, a cyborg world is about the final imposition of a grid of control on the planet, about the final abstraction embodied in a Star Wars apocalypse waged in the name of defense.... From another perspective, a cyborg world might be about lived social and bodily practices in which people are not afraid of their joint kinship with animals and machines, not afraid of permanently partial identities and contradictory standpoints. -Donna Haraway 
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