Digital Feminist Activism: Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture

ISBN-13: 9780190697853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str.

Kaitlynn Mendes; Jessica Ringrose; Jessalynn Keller

Opis

In light of popular feminist movements such as #MeToo, which harness new technologies to challenge rape culture, this pioneering book explores how digital feminist campaigns are used, felt, and experienced by members of the public including feminist leaders and "everyday" activists and participants.

Recenzje

The presence of an invincible, mendacious misogynist as one of the most powerful people on earth has provided the backdrop for a revival of feminist activism. The Trumpian turn will go down as a key defining moment in feminism's development in the digital sphere. Much of this feminism, fuelled by fury and expressed online, has met with a backlash which, ironically, makes use of the same social media tools. In Digital Feminist Activism this dynamic is admirably charted by Kaitlynn Mendes, Jessica Ringrose and Jessalynn Keller, for the first time in a book-length study. ... We need books such as Digital Feminist Activism to help us navigate the digital "real" world we now almost all inhabit. Emma Rees, Times Higher Education

O autorze

Kaitlynn Mendes is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at University of Leicester. Jessica Ringrose is Professor of Sociology of Gender and Education at University College London. Jessalynn Keller is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Media and Film at University of Calgary.