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A manifesto for werewolves
By positively revaluing aspects of the feminine, narratives about female
werewolves have challenged the strategies by which woman has been
negatively positioned as man’s Other. In this sense, many recent stories
about female werewolves have reflected a more general feminist concern
with enabling a feminine Self produced through positive identifications
rather than negative definition. Such an approach, however, has
been criticized for its implicit reinscription of the dualities it seeks to
evade; in particular, it remains enmeshed within the nature–culture
polarity that stems from the Enlightenment. By associating femininity
with ‘nature’, this version of feminism implicitly equates ‘culture’
with masculinity, a framework that maintains women’s exclusion from
‘cultural’ fields such as science or art.
Donna Haraway’s famous essay ‘A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science,
Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s’ (1985) sought to
develop a more radical approach to the question of such nature–culture
distinctions, particularly in relation to theorizations of gender and
selfhood. Haraway used the image of the cyborg — part human, part
machine — to imagine a postmodern subjectivity which does not rely