Digital Feminist Activism: Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics)
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Dimensions: 9.1 x 0.9 x 6.1 inches
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0190697857
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Print length: 224 pages
Publication date: February 7, 2019
ISBN-13: 978-0190697853
Part of series: Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
author: Kaitlynn Mendes Jessica Ringrose Jessalynn Keller
review: Editorial Reviews Review "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 "It's tempting to conclude that we live in an era in which we have reached peak misogyny. Then news breaks of another high-profile male sex offender exculpated, lauded, or even promoted and this conclusion seems perversely naive. In the face of what increasingly seems like the mother of all backlashes against feminist gains, Digital Feminist Activism offers a timely, rigorous, and finely-grained investigation of the multitude of ways women and girls are using digital and networked media - a medium so often used against them - to push back with a resounding "NO MORE". In exploring not just the dangers but also the drudgery of contemporary feminist activism, this excellent volume explores not just what digital feminism is or does but how it feels. It is essential reading not just for those interested in how feminism is playing out in digital domains, but in the future of the movement itself." -- Emma A. Jane, author of Misogyny Online: A Short (and Brutish) History " Digital Feminist Activism breaks politically urgent new ground as the first book-length study to examine how girls and women respond to-and challenge-rape culture in the digital era. This book is a timely feminist call-to-digital-arms, reminding us all of the powerful socio-political transformations that can come from collective feminist organizing and resistance." -- Tanya Horeck, Anglia Ruskin University About the Author 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.