CyberFeminism

by Hawthorne, Susan; Klein, Renate

• ISBN13: 9781875559688
• ISBN10: 187555968X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Spinifex Press

Summary

An international anthology by feminists working in the fields of electronic publishing, activism, data delivery, multimedia games production, educational multimedia, the virtual campus and virtual reality creation, program development and electronic product, as well as those developing critiques of electronic culture, this collection explores what the possibilities are for feminists and for feminism in cyberspace.

Table of Contents

Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein
CyberFeminism: Introduction	p. 1
Connectivity
Bandana Pattanaik
Home and the World: The Internet as a Personal and Political Tool	p. 19
Scarlet Pollock and Jo Sutton
WomenClick: Feminism and the Internet	p. 33
Laurel Guymer
Online Teaching: No Fear of Flying in Cyberspace	p. 51
Joan Korenman
Email Forums and Women's Studies: The Example of WMST-L	p. 80
Alesia Montgomery
Everyday Use: Women, Work and Online Play	p. 98
Susan Hawthorne
Connectivity: Cultural Practice of the Powerful or Subversion from the Margins?	p. 119
Critique
Beth Stafford
Information for People or Profits?	p. 137
Donna Hughes
The Internet and the Global Prostitution Industry	p. 157
Renate Klein
If I'm a Cyborg rather than a Goddess will Patriarchy go away?	p. 185
Susan Hawthorne
Cyborgs, Virtual Bodies and Organic Bodies: Theoretical Feminist Responses	p. 213
Josie Arnold
Feminist Poetics and Cybercolonisation	p. 250
Creativity
Miriam English
Why Virtual Reality?	p. 281
Kathy Mueller
The Nickelodeon Days of Cyberspace	p. 304
Beryl Fletcher
Cyberfiction: A Fictional Journey into Cyberspace (or How I became a Cyberfeminist)	p. 338
Virginia Westwood and Heather Kaufmann
Making a Multimedia Title	p. 352
Carmel Bird
Fiction and Interactive Multimedia	p. 368
Suniti Namjoshi
A Meme of Great Power or What the God Vishnu has to do with the Internet	p. 372
Suniti Namjoshi
Other Locations: A Hypertext Fable and Some Explanation	p. 381
Susan Hawthorne
Unstopped Mouths and Infinite Appetites: Developing a Hypertext of Lesbian Culture	p. 384
Glossary	p. 407
Notes on Contributors	p. 419
Index	p. 427
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