Product Description

Are women caught in the net or weaving it themselves? This book presents an analysis of the emerging cultural characteristics of women's activities on the Internet across the globe. It reflects on the type of cyberculture women are creating including the borders, exclusions and silences they encounter. It explores women's access to the Internet and proposes ways to increase their engagement with the new communication technologies. The contributors aim to break with the tendency - still dominant, even in feminist technology studies - to restrict analysis of cyberspace to the developed world. They emphasize the dynamism of culture and of communication and demonstrate how the Internet can be used to empower women working within very different cultural environments to negotiate the global and make it a local space, and to inform and change global cultures.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #288352 in Books
• Published on: 1999-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
A provacative exploration of the emerging trends in women's activities on the Internet, primarily in the Third and Fourth Worlds, this anthology brings together the voices of anthropologists, communications experts, media analysts and women's rights activists. "Publishers Weekly"

Customer Reviews

Challenging and rewarding
A bloke's review of a book about the internet from a predominanntly female perspective. This book is really readable, with some excellent insites into the genderisation of the internet, but is also an insight into the humanisation of the net. Bold and sassy, I found this book an exciting and provocative read.

If you thought the net was full of pubescent male geeks talking about advances in hard drive configuration, sports or comics, then think again. There are dynamic, and ivolving cyber cultures for all genders.

Thought provoking, academic, but very accessible, I'd recommend this one for anybody interested in net cultures, communications or maybe even women's studies :)