赛博女性主义述评

On Cyberfeminism

"赛博女性主义"这一提法出现于20世纪90年代初期,用来指赛博空间中女性之间强有力的互动关系及带有女性主义特点的活动。它大致可以分为两个分支:一是多纳.哈洛维(Donna Haraway)倡导的电子人隐喻,二是以塞迪.普朗特(Sadie Plant)为代表的关于女性与电子技术之间的关系的主张。本文试图评述赛博女性主义的理论要点和发展状况,剖析这一在90年代活跃一时的理论热点在进入新千年之后逐渐冷却的原因,认为赛博女性主义对我们今天了解社会性别和科学技术的关系具有积极的意义,而且在男权意识形态仍然占据主导地位的赛博文化中,赛博女性主义的呼声仍然十分必要。

The term ＂cyberfeminism＂, appeared at the beginning of 1990s, is used to refer to the vibrant interactions among women and the feminist activities in cyberspace. It can be roughly presented by two schools of thinking： Donna Haraway＇s metaphor of cyborg and Sadie Plant＇s ideas on the relationship between women and technology. By delineating the development of cyberfeminism, the present essay strives to explore the reasons why this once hot theoretical topic has been cooling down in the new millennium. The essay concludes that since cyberfeminism has a positive role in understanding the relationship between gender and technology, its theory and praxis are still necessary in this male-dominated cyberculture. The voices of the cyberfeminists should be enlarged rather than suffocated by the pornographic images in cyberspace.