Vol. 6, Issue 2, Part E (2024)

Rokeya Shakhawat Hossain’s ironical short story “Sultana’s Dream” exploded with reverse gender roles to criticize patriarchal societies and showed how women can break the gender differences through proper education and technology. Similarly, Donna Haraway, in her work A Cyborg Manifesto, rejects the idea of gender identities by adapting technology and being cyborg naturally. This paper focuses on analyzing Rokeya’s "Sultana''s Dream" through the lens of Donna Haraway''s Cyborg Feminism and the implications of it in women’s lives. The textual analysis method has been used to get insights from primary and secondary materials, including "Sultana's Dream" in English translation and other authors’ critical writings, respectively. The study finds the essence of cyborg feminism in “Sultana’s Dream," as women embraced themselves with technology to disrupt not only traditional gender power structures but also challenge social norms and the thinking of the word "gender." Despite having limitations of cyborg, such as the applicability and availability of technology to all women in developing countries as well as the concern about its control and manipulation, the research emphasizes the importance of understanding and embracing cyborg feminism for gender equality and societal transformation.