[NetBehaviour] NetBehaviour Digest, Vol 119, Issue 2
Ana Valdés
agora158 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 29 15:26:55 CEST 2007
I am a bit concerned about the relevance and the vitality of
cyberfeminism today. I believe in the first time of the net, when
Cornellia Frank, Donna Haraway, Sandy Stone, Anne Balsamo, Sherry
Turkle and many others were active and produced books and
bibliography, cyberfeminism was interesting and challenging. But the
homepage you sent, Helen, is almost dead, the calender is not updated
since 2003, the conferences are most archive things from 1999 and
2001, the personal projects empty.
I guess people are trying to do their own things in other
environments, as Second Life, etc.
But I don't feel an atmosphere of multiple networking and collaboration.
I am in several lists, Debian women, Counter Currents, Gender changes,
but nothing is very exciting and vital. A lot of conferences, small
networks, but few hubs nucleating women thinking in new banes.
Ana
On 8/29/07, Helen Varley Jamieson <helen at creative-catalyst.com> wrote:
> how about cyberfeminism?
> http://www.obn.org/inhalt_index.html
>
> as ana says there are a lot of radical feminist activists doing
> amazing work on a range of contemporary issues around the world -
> women in black, RAWA (revolutionary women of afghanistan), the 13
> indigenous grandmothers, & many many more. i am disappointed at how
> so many young western women think feminism is not relevant to them
> but in my experience that is not necessarily the case in countries
> where life is less comfortable.
>
> h : )
>
> >
> >What is also interesting is that, my sisters have a much better life
> >than my mother did as in better working conditions etc, yet are less
> >likely to even think about Feminism and how what they have now was
> >thought for them originally. In a consumer culture such as what we are
> >all engulfed in there really needs to be a radical update of feminism,
> >and I don't mean the kind of lifestyle magazine'ish, media friendly term
> >of 'Post-Feminism', it needs to be as approachable as consumerism and
> >offer civil liberties that communicate across all classes and race.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >marc
> >
>
>
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