Cyborgism And Social Enhancement: Shaping A New Rhetoric for Woman’s Participation in Contemporary Society as Represented in William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984)

Abstract

In A manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980s (2015), Australian scholar Donna Haraway develops a new feminist philosophy based on the possibilities offered by the cyborg, a cybernetic hybrid organism representing the coupling of organism and the machine, which is turned into an instrument for achieving all human aspirations. Drawing from this vision, we show through the study of Neuromancer (1984) by American writer William Gibson, that the trajectory of Molly Million, Gibson’s female protagonist is consistent to the cybor figure, and as such it is instrumental to the emancipation of contemporary woman’s life.