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Women’s Activism Online and the Global Struggle for Social Change

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Editors:
  1. Carmit Wiesslitz

    1. Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem, Israel

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  • Explores the challenges and obstacles facing women activists in the digital age
  • Includes rich case studies of women using the internet to facilitate social change around the world
  • Puts forward women’s activism and use of social media as an arena of collective action

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change (PSCSC)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Women’s Avenues of Digital Activism: Fighting for Their Own

    • Carmit Wiesslitz
    Pages 1-19

  3. Overcoming the Digital Divide and Going Viral: Women’s Online Struggles for Social Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. KN-IT-Working: Older Women’s Eco-Activism in the Digital Age—An Australian Case Study of the Knitting Nannas Against Gas and Greed’s Use of Social Media for Learning and Empowerment

      • Larraine J. Larri
      Pages 23-44

    3. “I’m at 100!”: Protesting the Right-Wing Government in Austria

      • Ricarda Drüeke
      Pages 45-61

    4. Feminists’ Social Media Protests and the Digital Public Sphere in Turkey

      • Aysun Eyrek
      Pages 63-80

    5. A Technopolitical Approach of the Feminist Performance Un Violador en tu Camino [A Rapist in Your Path]: Exploratory Insights from Online Videos

      • Valentina Carranza Weihmüller, Ana Lúcia NunesdeSousa, Karina de Cássia Caetano, V. C. Weihmüller, K. d. C. Caetano
      Pages 81-105

  4. An Alternative Democratic Public Sphere: The Internet as a Safe Space

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. Intersectionality in Feminist Hashtags and Democracy: How the Black Women’s Day in Brazil Mobilizes Specificities within the Feminist Movement

      • Bruna Silveira de Oliveira, Maiara Orlandini
      Pages 109-132

    3. “My Body is Not Your Crime Scene”: The Polarization and “Weaponization” of Women’s Online Activism on South Africa’s Twittersphere

      • Allen Munoriyarwa
      Pages 133-156

    4. #NoIsNo. Shaping Public Debate on Rape Culture and Sexual Assault in Spain through Social Media

      • Elisa García-Mingo, Patricia Prieto-Blanco, Silvia Díaz-Fernández
      Pages 157-172

    5. Politicization of Motherhood as a Mode of Digital Activism: The Case of Iran’s Mourning Mothers

      • Gilda Seddighi
      Pages 173-193

    6. Mobilizing the Everyday Activist: Digital Communication Toward Action as the Women’s March Advances from Grassroots Activism

      • Kristine M. Nicolini, Sara Steffes Hansen
      Pages 195-218
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About this book

This book showcases the online activism of women’s groups around the world in the post-#MeToo era, and presents an overview of the diversity of its current expressions. The focus of this book extends beyond campaigns against rape culture to include women’s struggles on other political and environmental issues, such as the campaign against the radical right-wing in Austria.  Moreover, the book's chapters highlight the genuine complexity of the efforts of women activists who are not only challenging the patriarchal order within male-controlled digital platforms but are also challenging the hegemonic voices within the women's movements. The book’s case studies attest to the proliferation of digital campaigns aimed not only against discrimination of women but against discrimination based on their color, age, ethnicity, and nationality. The internet helps them to voice their agenda and strive for social change as well as to create both connective and collective identities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem, Israel

    Carmit Wiesslitz

About the editor

Carmit Wiesslitz PhD, is Lecturer in the Department of Politics & Communications at Hadassah Academic College, Israel. She is the author of Internet democracy and social change: The case of Israel, published in 2019 by Lexington Books. She studies new media, democracy and civil society, and women’s digital activism.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Women’s Activism Online and the Global Struggle for Social Change

  • Editors: Carmit Wiesslitz

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31621-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-31620-3Published: 07 August 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-31623-4Due: 07 September 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-31621-0Published: 06 August 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6397

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6400

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 310

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Digital/New Media, Gender Studies

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