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Kritika pojma prirode u pristupu Donne Haraway
Critique of the Concept of Nature by Donna Haraway

Author(s): Nada Sekulic
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Sociology
Published by: Sociološko naučno društvo Srbije
Keywords: cyber-feminism; cyborg; nature-nurture; sex-gender; chthulucene

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the fundamental importance that relationship between nature and culture has in humanities, particularly in relation to the nature of humans, including intersection with the debate on gender and sex, I examine the cyber-feminist approach of Donna Haraway. She interprets the concepts of gender, race, nature, sex as chronotopes, changing products of specific long-term histories, and not as self-evident data that would be grounded in biology. By introducing the categories of chronotope (unified space-time), cyborg (unified machine-man- animal), chthulocene (epoch of productive cacophony and networking), Haraway deconstructs the dichotomous demarcation between nature and culture, civilization and savagery, mind and body, male and female, as well as the boundaries between gender and sex, characteristic of the history of the humanities and related sciences, as well as of the history of feminism itself.

  • Issue Year: 64/2022
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 323-339
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Serbian