Writing the Feminine: Donna Haraway and (Feminist?) Organization Studies

Abstract

Extending the works of scholars who have elucidated writing as the quintessential site for social transformation, the aim of this paper is to locate the myriad possibilities of actualizing Donna Haraway’s concept of cyborg writing. I contend that cyborg writing functions as a discursive mechanism by which to disrupt positivist ideals of Cartesian duality, objectivity, and rationality. These ideals inform the very alchemy of masculine privilege that emerge from having a society that is structured along androcentric values. Situating the scholarship of Joanna Brewis, I illuminate how cyborg writing can be effectively pursued in the field of organization studies. I conclude with a discussion of the implications of cyborg writing, and with the identification of a couple of trajectories that scholars can pursue in future studies that endeavor to actualize the feminist project of gender egalitarianism.