From Cybernation to Feminization: Firestone and Cyberfeminism

Paasonen, Susanna

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“…Plant has been criticized for essentializing the relationship between women and technology—in making the Internet a basically “female” technology and excluding women who do not belong to the inner circle of white, Western, middle-class, highly theoretical cyberfeminists (Wakeford, 1997). Furthermore, some feminists consider early cyberfeminist stances as apolitical (Paasonen, 2005). For example, Wajcman (2004) has claimed that cyberfeminists assign too much agency to new technologies and not enough to feminist politics.…”

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Iranian Women Traveling in vTime: A Cyberfeminist Approach

Kiani

Tavakoli

Mura

2023

Journal of Travel Research

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Informed by a cyberfeminist standpoint, this paper explores the role of cyberworlds and virtual tourism in providing less constrained and more liberating traveling experiences for women. More specifically, through interviews with a group of Iranian women traveling in a virtual world known as vTime, this work discusses whether and how virtual tourist experiences allow women to overcome their travel-related constraints and pave the way to forms of self-determination and emancipation. In contrast, several feminists hold utopian and dystopian views regarding the benefits of the Internet and technology for women’s empowerment, and the findings of our study point to a rather complex and less encouraging scenario. Virtual tourism in cyberspace allows Iranian women to overcome constraints affecting their traveling experiences. Nevertheless, it is far from a liberating experience as women’s self-expression and activities are restricted and limited by patriarchy-driven concerns about surveillance, legal consequences, harassment, social stigma, and western dominance.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Iranian Women Traveling in vTime: A Cyberfeminist Approach

Kiani

Tavakoli

Mura

2023

Journal of Travel Research

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“…Some conservatives have treated technological change as under human control, others not, though they agree that there is little of merit to be controlled (Gray, 2007; Oakeshott, 2014). Other political theories tend to treat technological change as subject to human agency; indeed, this conceptualisation has sparked much utopian thinking (Bastani, 2019; Bookchin, 1971; Feenberg, 1990; Firestone, 2015).…”

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The political theory of technological change: Lessons from the liberalism-ecologism debate

Keary

2023

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Little consideration has been given to the process of technological change in political theory. Given that ideas about this process play an important role in many strands of normative political thought, and are especially crucial to climate change politics, this is a remarkable oversight. It risks political theory being irrelevant to climate change mitigation. The implications of this oversight for political theory are explored here through an analysis of the liberalism-ecologism debate. The article argues that attempts to green liberalism – to move it beyond environmentalism – cannot succeed while liberalism is silent about technological change. More broadly, given that most political theory traditions make claims about technological change, claims crucial to their worldviews and normative goals, it argues that much more theorisation of the concept is necessary. Especially now that they shape how the world understands climate change mitigation, contests over the meaning of technological change are intensely political contests. Political theory needs to get much more involved.

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In search of reciprocity: Feminist challenges in Posthumanist thinking – An intellectual meditation

Govinden

2021

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From Cybernation to Feminization: Firestone and Cyberfeminism

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Iranian Women Traveling in vTime: A Cyberfeminist Approach

Iranian Women Traveling in vTime: A Cyberfeminist Approach

The political theory of technological change: Lessons from the liberalism-ecologism debate

In search of reciprocity: Feminist challenges in Posthumanist thinking – An intellectual meditation

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