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'''CyberFeminism''' is a philosophical and artistic movement which seeks to try and find the historical relationship between feminity and technology and
==Etymology==
*[[File:Cyberfem.png]] '''CyberFeminism''' - The term CyberFeminism has unclear origins but what is known is that the term refers to Cybernetic Feminism i.e. a Feminism which analyses the feminine via cybernetics and connects the two.
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==[[File:Historian.png]] History==
CyberFeminism as a movement started in the early 1990s with the
===Influences===
CyberFeminism is strongly influenced by
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The intellectual origins of CyberFeminism can be found in writers of [[File:2WF.png]] Second Wave Feminism.
Shulamith Firestone is a big contributor to the groundwork for the CyberFeminist project, especially
The same can be said of Donna Haraway in her groundlaying work ''A Cyborg Manifesto'' written in 1985, in which she conceptualizes the feminine potential that the cyborg as an amorphous being clouding the taxonomy of existing species offers to the Feminist Project.
===Creation of CyberFeminism===
The exact point in time of the creation of CyberFeminism can not be pinpointed but it is generally accepted that VNS Matrix was the first CyberFeminist collective to exist, being formed in the early 90s, but whether the term was coined by them or by Sadie Plant is a topic that is still in debate. The general stances are that one can either narrow
===The Cybernetic Culture Research Unit===
====Sadie Plants Departure====
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===Decline===
CyberFeminism has since the early 2000s declined heavily in popularity, and many factors have played into this. The abandoning of the CCRU as a CyberFeminist project and its eventual turning into a quasi-cult caused Sadie Plant to distance herself from politics
Along with that soon reality started to catch up with many of the CyberFeminists as they soon realized that the old prejudices which existed in meatspace also soon came to exist in cyberspace essentially causing the loss of the utopian vision that CyberFeminism had of the future.
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