Online Feminism

Second wave feminists used a particular form of memoir – personal testimony – in the then new political practice of consciousness-raising. Now, contemporary scholars have argued the recent practice of mothers writing about their lives online and in print are the inheritors of the consciousness-raising tradition. Using two first-person accounts by contemporary Australian journalists and feminists (Pryor 2014, Freedman 2015) of juggling work, study and motherhood through consuming anti-depressant and anti-anxiety medication, this chapter examines how these newer forms of memoir/consciousness-raising represent both a continuity with, and a break from, earlier forms of the practice. These contemporary stories still provide readers with consolation and relief; but where personal stories were once used to interrogate problems in women’s social worlds (Friedan, 1963, Summers 1975), the contemporary feminists’ stories discussed here emphasise individual choice, adaptation and personal transformation (including a medical transformation at a fundamental level of self). The use of memoir by these contemporary writers is also considered in the context of a new version of celebrity feminism, one where the author’s life story is now foregrounded. Finally, this chapter argues that the personal story, once harnessed by second wavers to build a movement, is now recruited by contemporary feminists to build a personal brand.

Paper presented at the Law & Society Association meeting in 2014, about nudity being controlled by Internet platforms and their terms of service, tensions with Brazilian law and its standards on nudity, impacts on gender activism. Paper was never published, I never incorporated comments and criticisms, but it has been used in class and was the starting point for an agenda on gender, law and Internet platforms.

" Safe spaces " emerged as an important activist tactic in the late twentieth-century United States with the rise of feminist, queer, and anti-racist movements. However, the term's ambiguity, while denoting its wide applicability across movements, has led " safe space " to become overused but undertheorized. In both theory and praxis, " safe space " has been treated as a closed concept, erasing the context-specific relational work required to construct and maintain its material and symbolic boundaries. The emergence of online communities promising safety for marginalized groups calls for renewed investigations into the construction of these activist spaces. In this article, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork to consider the cultivation of safe space within Girl Army, a Philadelphia-based feminist Facebook group. Through participant observation and interviews with Girl Army members, I trace the group's technical and discursive enforcement of safety and the role this space plays in members' activism and everyday lives. In 2012, a small group of Philadelphia-based women connected over a shared desire for sisterhood. Each felt that their social lives were lacking deep friendship with other women, which, in turn, created a lack of access to empathy for their gender-specific

Social media, particularly image sharing platforms such as Instagram, has changed the nature of what it means to be "visible" in the contemporary political climate. The accessibility of Instagram offers hitherto unimaginable opportunities for users to perform their political beliefs. The feminist potential of Instagram as a platform is apparent in the number of overtly feminist accounts. Such accounts go some way towards harnessing the power of the spectatorial gaze by turning the camera on themselves as they challenge traditional constructions of gender and beauty and perform for an audience other than a presumed able-bodied, white, male, heterosexual spectator. This article analyses the potential of instagram as a site of feminist activism, resistance and visibility. Using examples from instagram accounts that engage in feminist discourse it demonstrates the ways in which Instagram facilitates the performance of feminist politics for its users. However it also interrogates the limits of Instagram as a space for feminist action. Taking into account the normative boundaries imposed by dominant neoliberal capitalist discourses and instagram's own rules and regulations, it will explore the limitations of feminism on Instagram.

Zines have made a resurgence in the United States. What functions do these humble, self-published booklets perform in the current media landscape, where digital reigns supreme? This article explores the political salience of zines for feminists, whose social media tactics have pushed feminism into popular culture and yet who continue to make zines. While much has been written about feminist zines, little research has considered their relevance in the digital age, nor have researchers grappled with the complex relationship between digital and print activist media. Drawing on interviews with zinesters, I argue that feminist zines and online feminism are not materially polarized outlets, but practices with distinct yet symbiotic advantages working in tandem within a repertoire of feminist media tactics.

Resumen. Introducción. Este artículo plantea estudiar las líneas de investigación que se destacan en la literatura académica francesa sobre la misoginia en internet. Objetivos. El termino genérico "misoginia" implica realidades distintas en las redes sociales, aunque tengan en común su pertenencia a un continuo de violencias en contra de las mujeres, por ello utilizamos un marco teórico feminista para analizar el corpus de publicaciones científicas. Metodología. La metodología opera por reticularidad, es decir que la aproximación de la literatura académica como red llevó a identificar tres ramas de investigación dentro de los campos disciplinarios de la sociología y las ciencias de la comunicación francesas. Resultados. La primera pone de relieve la permanencia de los discursos sexistas y antifeministas a través de análisis semióticos y discursivos. La segunda línea de investigación identificada se dedica al análisis de las prácticas digitales del feminismo 2.0, desde el marco de la sociología de los usos y del análisis del discurso. La tercera línea registrada refiere a las "apropiaciones ordinarias" del feminismo como salida de la dialéctica dominación-resistencia característica de otras apropiaciones. Conclusiones y discusión. La contribución tiene cuatro aportaciones: 1) consta de la dispersión y ausencia de especialización del campo de investigación sobre género e internet; 2) propone una modelización del ecosistema analizado con tres ramas distintas; 3) destaca los debates epistemológicos subyacentes respecto a la ideología naturalista y la aproximación del concepto de género; 4) identifica una área de investigación pendiente desarrollo. Palabras clave: ciber-misoginia; feminismo; sociología; ciencias de la comunicación. [en] Feminist approaches to misogyny on social media: a French perspective Abstract. Introduction. This article deals with the trends in French scientific research about cyber-misogyny. Objectives. The generic label "misogyny" refers to different realities on the internet. Yet, they must be understood as part of a continuum of violence against women. As a consequence, the theoretical framework dwells on feminist theories in order to analyze the corpus of scientific articles. Methodology. Thanks to a network-based methodology, we could identify three lines of research within the disciplinary fields of French sociology and communication studies. Results. The first one highlights the hegemonic sexist and anti-feminist rhetoric thanks to semiotics and discourse analysis. The second one focuses on feminism 2.0 from both a discourse analysis and sociological perspective. The third line of research lays the emphasis on the "ordinary uses" of feminism as an out way from the dialectic between domination and resistance typical of the two others trends. Conclusions and discussion. Four contributions stand out: 1) the field of gender and internet studies is scattered and little structured; 2) it can be modeled in three lines of research; 3) it is designed by epistemological debates surrounding the naturalist ideology as well as the concept of gender; 4) this trend of research is still to be developed. Sumario. 1. Introducción. 2. Una misoginia hegemónica en las redes sociales: permanencia de los discursos sexistas y antifeministas. 3. Resistir la dominación masculina: acerca del feminismo 2.0. 4. El continuo de los discursos: más allá de las retóricas pro-y anti-feministas. 5. Conclusiones. Referencias Bibliográficas. Cómo citar: Albenga, V.; Biscarrat L. (2021). Aproximaciones feministas de la misoginia en redes sociales: una perspectiva francesa, en Revista de Investigaciones Feministas 12(1), 57-66.

This paper describes a study of the feminist hashtag campaign against blaming victims #этонеповодубить (it is not a reason to kill), which was launched in the Russian social media in 2018. This article considers #этонеповодубить as a case of discursive activism and combines techniques of discourse analysis with network analysis to reveal how the participants in the temporary community were opposed to the victim-blaming discourse. The strategies of legitimization that the participants used to justify their opinions and the provocative style of the campaign were investigated based on Reyes' classification. Visual network analysis and text analysis were facilitated by Netlytic.

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