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Cyberfeminism 2.0, Hardback Book

Cyberfeminism 2.0 Hardback

Edited by Radhika Gajjala, Yeon Ju Oh

Part of the Digital Formations series

Hardback

Description

More than a decade after feminists burst forth onto the Internet demanding material access and social intervention, this collection sets out to explore what it means to be a cyberfeminist today.

The contributors examine a wide range of topics, from Health 2.0, the blogosphere, and video games, to female artists and diasporic youth, in order to re-envision how feminists can intervene in the mutual shaping of online and offline relationships.

These authors contend that women’s bodies and actions online are influenced by the politics of offline spaces, which buttress power hierarchies at both material and symbolic levels.

They do not, however, simply make pessimistic assessments of online spaces as an extension of the existing power relations.

Rather, Cyberfeminism 2.0 attends to contested aspects of new digital technologies that simultaneously enable political retreat and feminist resistance.

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