The purpose of this study is to inquire and analyze feministic view on cyberspace on the base of the opinion of Dana J. Haraway and Sadie Plant so that assess feministic implication of cyberspace. Haraway has the view that human being is a cyborg, the...
The purpose of this study is to inquire and analyze feministic view on cyberspace on the base of the opinion of Dana J. Haraway and Sadie Plant so that assess feministic implication of cyberspace. Haraway has the view that human being is a cyborg, the hybrid of machine and organism in cyberspace, and the gender dualism is broken up in the cyborg. Plant suggests that the system of cyberspace is feminine so it is feministic system for woman. However unlike their theory, the cyberspace is ruled by gender dualism at present and there is patriarchal phenomenon. I think that this phenomenon shows the flaw of Haraway`s theory which prospects breaking of boundary between female and male through breaking of boundary between machine and organism. And I understand that there is a fault in Plant`s assumption which insists feminine system imply anti-patriarchal system. In this process of study, I would like to point out that the view of Haraway and Plant, which understands cyberspace as feministic utopia, is too optimistic and so review cyberspace to see how much it has feministic implication at present.