projects of other science studies scholars such as Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, Andrew Pickering, and Evelyn Fox Keller. Barad's notion of "phenomenon" has also been compared to analogous concepts in the work of Ian Hacking and Nancy Cartwright. Barad's work has generally been received more positively within feminist technoscience than within mainstream science, technology and society studies (STS). References Metaphysical realism