From the ‘Radical Women’s Press’ to the Digital Age: Subversive Networks of Feminism in the United States
Edited book (chapter)
Stevenson, Ana. 2020. "From the ‘Radical Women’s Press’ to the Digital Age: Subversive Networks of Feminism in the United States." Guntarik, Olivia and Grieve-Williams, Victoria (ed.) From Sit-Ins to #Revolutions: Media and the Changing Nature of Protests. New York. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 51-64
| Chapter Title | From the ‘Radical Women’s Press’ to the Digital Age: Subversive Networks of Feminism in the United States |
|---|---|
| Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
| Book Title | From Sit-Ins to #Revolutions: Media and the Changing Nature of Protests |
| Authors | |
| Author | Stevenson, Ana |
| Editors | Guntarik, Olivia and Grieve-Williams, Victoria |
| Page Range | 51-64 |
| Chapter Number | 4 |
| Number of Pages | 14 |
| Year | 2020 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| ISBN | 9781501336959 |
| 9781501336966 | |
| Web Address (URL) | https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/from-sitins-to-revolutions-9781501384066/ |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Keywords | women's history, United States history, print culture, digital culture, feminism, social movements |
| ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 430312. Histories of race |
| 430321. North American history | |
| 430309. Gender history | |
| Byline Affiliations | University of the Free State, South Africa |
| Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
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