A Cyborg Manifesto. Science, technology and socialist feminism in the late twentieth century by Donna Haraway

Cyborg Manifesto is an essay on feminism, part of Simians, cyborgs and women. A book of essays on feminist theory.

I can't say I enjoyed this read. Its dense academic writing isn't easy to read. Add to that my ignorance of historical and theoretical context. Add to that, that after reading the introduction to the book (which I kind of enjoyed) I went on reading the first 3 essays (the plan was to read Cyborg Manifesto only) which discuss work on natural sciences in the late 19 century and early 20 century. Haraway explains how some reputed scientific work of the time was biased against women. Scientists applied socially constructed ideas on violence and dominance in their studies acknowledging them as natural. Can't say more because, not my thing...
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Skip to the Cyborg Manifesto,... I realised this essay doesn't discuss much (not as much as I had wished) the concept of cyborg. What it does (in my limited understanding) is to use, the concept of "cyborg", first to acknowledg the humanity of cyborgs (they are humans!), and second to emphasise the non-natural  aspects of their construction to use them as theoretical tools to improve modern world feminism. Ideas like "women should stay at home" or "women should be mothers" would not apply if we thought of ourselves as cyborgs. Why? Because cyborgs are not natural but constructed. Cyborgs can reconstruct themselves the way they want given the tools available in our time. (I wish I could develop this idea more but I can't ) Anyway I guess theorists such as Haraway used the concept of cyborg to dispute structures such as men dominance over women which are, I think, not natural.

I downloaded a pdf version of the book from my university library.
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Fun bit, Haraway, mentions science fiction authors such as Octavia Butler, Joanna Russ and Samuel R. Delany. .