This dis-embodiment, the same one that portable audio devices sell to consumers, has been a source of anxiety for many twentieth century scholars and critics-most notably feminists and non-Western intellectuals, both of whom were struggling to gain the rights that Western culture had denied them for centuries. The latter half of the twentieth century saw the theorization of alternative epistemologies of knowledge, each attempting to either broaden the inclusive potential of subjectivity or deconstruct it for good.
This blurring of the boundary between self and other is one of many points in Haraway's monumental mid-1980s text, "A Cyborg Manifesto," in which she posits the model of the cyborg as that very being which exists at the boundary between dichotomous entities: