Redoing feminism: digital activism, body politics, and neoliberalism

Baer, Hester

doi:10.1080/14680777.2015.1093070

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“…(see Ragnedda & Muschert, 2013). As Baer (2016) has noted, these digital platforms have been viewed as offering great potential for advancing feminist agendas as they are able to disseminate feminist ideas, shape new discourses, connect different and diverse groups and allow new and creative forms of protest and activism.…”

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Social media platforms as complex and contradictory spaces for feminisms: Visibility, opportunity, power, resistance and activism

Locke

Lawthom

Lyons

2018

Feminism & Psychology

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Social media platforms as complex and contradictory spaces for feminisms: Visibility, opportunity, power, resistance and activism

Locke

Lawthom

Lyons

2018

Feminism & Psychology

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“…2 Broadly speaking, neoliberalism is understood here as a mode of political and economic rationality characterized by privatization, deregulation structured by individual entrepreneurial freedom (Baer, 2016;Gill & Schraff, 2011).…”

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Networked Scars: Tattooed Bodies after Breast Cancer

Klein¹

2018

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This paper investigates the growing trend of mastectomy tattoos as an alternative to reconstruction, and their implication for the (de)regulation of women's bodies in the digital context. I explore how tattoos are incorporated into a "breast cancer culture" (King, 2010) as a form of self-care in the recreation of areola pigmentation after breast reconstructive surgery and in cosmetic masking of post-operative mastectomy scars. I examine how online discourses of tattooing practices are drawing women's bodies into an emergent 'biopolitics' (Foucault, 1990;Rose, 2001;Clarke et al., 2010), a productive type of power concerned with the risk management of a "biomedicalized subject" where women are encouraged to care for their health through informed decisions via online media (Pitts, 2004) and through consumption and beautification techniques in line with normative femininity (King, 2006). Yet, online media can potentially operate as sites for the creation of new publics wherein women can retell the stories of their bodies through new practices of inscription that subvert medicalized and masculinist reconstruction narratives. I perform a discourse

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“…"Digital platforms offer great potential for broadly disseminating feminist ideas, shaping new modes of discourse about gender and sexism, connecting to different constituencies, and allowing creative modes of protest to emerge." [14]. Derek Murray has highlighted "the rise of a newly politicised and empowered female presence" in social media [4]".…”

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Making a Difference: Social Media, Photography, Activism and Women in Asian Contexts

Allmark¹

2019

Proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Media, and Social Science

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Selfies by women and female photography has been used for digital activism. In the self-portraits, or selfies used in social media, women are active participants and through the dissemination and the sharing of images (and accompanying messages) there is an act of solidarity to raise awareness of particular issues. I will look at the impact of photography which has led to a rising female presence and empowerment through social media. Furthmore, I will examine feminist representational politics for social activism in the Asian region and how this has engaged with wider social movements such as #me too.

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Redoing feminism: digital activism, body politics, and neoliberalism

Cited by 344 publications

References 20 publications

Social media platforms as complex and contradictory spaces for feminisms: Visibility, opportunity, power, resistance and activism

Social media platforms as complex and contradictory spaces for feminisms: Visibility, opportunity, power, resistance and activism

Networked Scars: Tattooed Bodies after Breast Cancer

Making a Difference: Social Media, Photography, Activism and Women in Asian Contexts

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