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The Limitations of Social Media Feminism - No Space of Our Own (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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The Limitations of Social Media Feminism - No Space of Our Own (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI
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#MeToo. Digital networking. Facebook groups. Social media continues
to be positioned by social movement scholars as an exciting new
tool that has propelled feminism into a dynamic fourth wave of the
movement. But how does male power play out on social media, and
what is the political significance of women using male-controlled
and algorithmically curated platforms for feminism? To answer these
questions, Megarry foregrounds an analysis of the practices and
ethics of the historical Women's Liberation Movement (WLM),
including the revolutionary characteristics of face-to-face
organising and the development of an autonomous print culture.
Centering discussions of time, space and surveillance, she utilises
radical and lesbian feminist theory to expose the contradictions
between the political project of women's liberation and the
dominant celebratory narratives of Web 2.0. This is the first book
to seriously consider how social media perpetuates the enduring
logic of patriarchy and howdigital activism shapes women's
oppression in the 21st century. Drawing on interviews with
intergenerational feminist activists from the UK, the USA,
Australia, Canada and New Zealand, as well as archival and digital
activist materials, Megarry boldly concludes that feminists should
abandon social media and return to the transformative powers of
older forms of women-centred political praxis. This book will be of
interest to scholars and students of Women's and Gender Studies,
Lesbian and Queer Studies, Social Movement Studies, Critical
Internet Studies and Political Communication, as well as anyone
with an interest in feminist activism and the history of the WLM.
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