Reflecting on the list of feminist science fiction authors cited at the end of Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto (including Octavia Butler), Ïan Larue redefines this founding figure in the philosopher's thought.
According to the author, ‘The cyborg is the ultimate hybrid, a hybrid between a real woman and a character in a novel who is superimposed on her to endow her with a thousand new possibilities, including the fundamental one of breaking up capitalism, family and patriarchy.’ In 2019 Ïan Larue was the winner of the Grand prix de l'Imaginaire, in the ‘Essays’ category, for this non-fiction book.
[2] Among these must read women SF writer ared : included : Octavia Butler (Dawn, part of the Xenogenesis Trilogy), Joanna Russ (The Female Man), Monique Wittig (Les Guérillères) and James Tiptree, Jr (Beyond the World's Walls).
In these worlds, cyborgs transgress gender and norms, while often incorporating aspects of ecofeminism and feminist figures of witchcraft, creating a path of emancipation and joyful liberation.
[8] She has also published an essay about the role of women painters throughout history from antiquity and medieval times, questioning the reasons of their disappearance from historical reviews.