For me, it was one of the heaviest texts I’ve read in a while. But Judy Davidson commented on her post that it’s not so much the text itself, its more what you do with it. So between you, you’ve helped me see more of the political irony behind Haraway’s metaphor of the cyborg.

With regards the evolution of a new working class – a homebased workforce – am I becoming feminized. Due to a change of job, I am now home based. The time previously spent commuting has more or less been replaced by domestic chores, since I’m not the partner going out to work. My work peers – if I can call them that – now see me purley in terms of what materials I produce. This fits in with Haraway -

“Work is being redefined as both literally female and feminized, whether performed by men or women. To be feminized means to be made extremely vulnerable; able to be disassembled, reassembled, exploited as a reserve labour force; seen less as workeds than as servers; subjected to time arrangements on and off the paid job that make a mockery of a limited working day; leading an existence that always borders on being obscene, out of place and reducible to sex. (46)”

In my opinion, if more people are to take advantage of technological communication to work from home, I think this is more likely to erode the traditional, domestic divisions of labour. Either we all become more feminized, or gender roles become less significant.

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