Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice: Communities, Pedagogies, and Social Action

Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice: Communities, Pedagogies, and Social Action
ISBN-10
157273776X
ISBN-13
9781572737761
Category
Social Science / Women's Studies
Pages
401
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Hampton Press
Authors
Kristine Blair, Radhika Gajjala, Christine Tulley

Description

This is the first book collection to devote itself exclusively to issues related to women's lives in a culture of technology. As such, it is a key addition to feminist new media scholarship in computers and composition. [...] To explore the variety of cyberfeminist webs, the collection has been organized around three themes. Chapters in "Forming Virtual Kinships" examine cyberfeminist practices that do not neatly operate in standard academic communities such as classrooms or cultural centers, instead foregrounding the extent to which female communities evolve around aspects of women's daily lives as mothers, consumers, and workers. Chapters in 'Redrawing Academic Boundaries" offer a glimpse of practice within more defined pedagogical spaces, providing a sense of the ways in which classroom and community network boundaries are often blurred and disrupted. Last, the text moves to explore how cyberfeminist webs both on the beyond the borders of standard spaces are developed using a variety of theoretical standpoints. --Publisher description.

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