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Article: (En)Gendering the Digital Body: Feminism and the Internet.
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- Hecate
- Article date:
- October 1, 1999
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The 1990s have seen the emergence of a significant new media form. Unparalleled commercial interest has been generated around the Internet which, in terms of its potential impact upon the conduct of Westernised societies, has been compared to the Gutenberg Press whose capacity for mass production of the printed text was one of the principle ushers of the industrial age. Amongst the heralding and marketing of this new digital epoch, a good deal of thought has been dedicated to the utilisation of information technologies for progressive social ends. Cyberfeminisms, as a popular avenue for contemporary feminist intervention in technologically mediated structures of power (in ...