Kateryna Karpenko: The advantages and disadvantages of cyberfeminism

Understanding the risks that accompany the intensive development of technologies and provoke new bioethical problems determines the assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of cyberfeminism.
On the one hand, Donna Haraway's cyberfeminist conceptualizations of technological development critically influence the role and power of women in creating emancipated cyberspaces. In her opinion, they shed light on how technology can be a tool for women's empowerment and how it can deconstruct current power imbalances and gender inequalities in medical bioethics and global bioethics.
On the other hand, Ariel Salleh argues from the perspective of an ‘embodied materialist ecofeminism’ and makes two claims.
First, the postmodern preoccupation with discourse analysis methodologies becomes counterproductive by deflecting attention from activism.
Secondly, Haraway’s quasi-celebration of capitalist patriarchal technoscience, with its iconic cyborg, presents a dystopia that confuses the political focus of feminists, just as an aggressive neoliberal form of globalization colonizes and consumes the support systems of all life on earth.
This study aims to show that cyberfeminism and ecofeminism have a significant mutual influence and enhance the synergy of resistance to environmental and patriarchal pressures. They must work together to combat the oppression that the environment and women face effectively. The rapid spread of digitization in various spheres of life, including the environment, and the transformative potential of modern cyberfeminism open new opportunities for a more inclusive and equal society.
Kateryna Karpenko is Professor for Philosophy. She is also Head of the Philosophy Department and Director of the Center for Gender Studies at Kharkiv National Medical University (Ukraine).
Kateryna Karpenko is also Fellow of MSCA4Ukraine (ID 1232949) granted with a project about “Women Philosophers and Scientists: Ecofeminism against Ecocide during and after the war” that is supported by the MSCA4Ukraine. (funded by the EU)
Prof. Karpenko took part in more than 150 International conferences. She published more than 200 scientific works, including monograph  Nature and Woman: Ecofeminist Perspectives in Ukraine‖ (2006, in Ukrainian). For last 2 years, 4 publications have the Scopus and Web of Science indexation.
Her keynote was part of the international Online-Workshop Call for Interferences - Act up/Building up: EcoTechGender Action Group that was hosted by the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists within the research project EcoTechGender. The workshop was organized by Prof. Dr. Ruth E. Hagengruber and Felix Grewe. More informations can be found at the webpage of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists and the project EcoTechGender:
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