Stevenson, Ana (2020) From the ‘radical women’s press’ to the digital age: subversive networks of feminism in the United States. In: Guntarik, Olivia, and Grieve-Williams, Victoria, (eds.) From Sit-Ins to #revolutions: media and the changing nature of protests. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, New York, NY, USA, pp. 51-64.

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Abstract

[Extract] The new media of the digital age has contributed to increasing feminist activity in the twenty-first century and is perceived as an enabling tool for social movements. As media scholar Aristea Fotopoulou (2016: 41) observes: ‘Social and cultural imaginaries of technology and women have long been strong drives for visions and promises of a “networked feminism”.’ Before the internet, however, women’s activism was linked by other emergent communications technologies. As early as the 1850s, what Ann Russo and Cheris Kramarae (1991) describe as the ‘radical women’s press’ developed from the emerging women’s rights movement. Historian Amy Erdman Farrell (1998: 3) describes Ms. magazine as a ‘movement’ unto itself during the 1970s. Knowledge of these earlier subversive networks is central for understanding the meaning and impact of feminist networks in the digital age.

Item ID:	67676
Item Type:	Book Chapter (Research - B1)
ISBN:	978-1-5013-3695-9
Copyright Information:	Copyright © Olivia Guntarik and Victoria Grieves and Contributors, 2020. Volume Editor’s Part of the Work © Olivia Guntarik and Victoria Grieves-Williams. Each chapter © of Contributors
Funders:	New England Regional Fellowship Consortium
Date Deposited:	08 Jun 2021 04:06
FoR Codes:	43 HISTORY, HERITAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 4303 Historical studies > 430309 Gender history @ 40% 43 HISTORY, HERITAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 4303 Historical studies > 430312 Histories of race @ 20% 43 HISTORY, HERITAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 4303 Historical studies > 430321 North American history @ 40%
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