A Communication Handbook: A Handbook for Women's Rights Organisations by the …

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978-9988-1-4419-7

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Communications Handbook: Developing Good Practice for Women's Rights Organisa…

Whilst more women's rights organisations recognise the need to strengthen their communications capacities, it is still a relatively low priority for most. The inability to prioritise communications…

Reconstructing Gendered Narratives Online: Nudity for Popularity on Digital P…

The focus of this paper is on how young female internet users in Africa, with emphasis on Kenya, are constructing their own gendered narratives online. The emphasis is on how they are appropriating…

1. Introduction: Sexual Violence, Social Movements, and Social Media

Social media platforms have grown by leaps and bounds over the past eight years, as has social media activism against sexual violence. The intensification of the #MeToo Movement in 2017 has spurred…

Rule-guided Expression: Gender Dissent across Mediated Literary Works

This paper is concerned with the examination of rule-guided cultural and thematic battles enacted by women writers in two historical moments—the late nineteenth- and early twenty-first centuries�…

Why Don 't I Look Like Her? The Impact of Social Media on Female Body Image

The purpose of this paper is to understand and criticize the role of social media in the development and/or encouragement of eating disorders, disordered eating, and body dissatisfaction in colle…

Monstrous Agents: Cyberfeminist Media and Activism

This paper considers two important artworks of the 1990s as markers of the cyberfeminist moment. “A CyberFeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century” (1991) by VNS Matrix and carrier (1996) by Meli…

Help! I don’t love my husband” Advice Columns as Teaching Resource for Ge…

This paper is concerned with the use of teaching materials that are salient to students’ life experiences, hold their interest and facilitate transformatory learning and critical feminist thinkin…

Hashtag Feminism, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, and the Other #FemFuture

On August 12th, 2013, the hashtag #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen trended worldwide. In four short days, it was tweeted over 75,465 times (Topsy 2015). Coined by Mikki Kendall (@Karynthia) during a Twit…

Feminist Rhetoric in the Digital Sphere: Digital Interventions & the Subversi…

Firstly, I define feminist rhetoric as any written or spoken act about feminisms[5] within the context of feminist inteFirstly, I define feminist rhetoric as any written or spoken act about feminis…