cyberfeminism

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noun

A community, philosophy and set of practices concerned with feminist acts in cyberspace.

Scrabble 27

Meanings

nouncyberfeminism (countable and uncountable, plural cyberfeminisms)

plural cyberfeminisms

  1. countableuncountableA community, philosophy and set of practices concerned with feminist acts in cyberspace.

    Because of its similarity to what is often referred to as "liberal feminism" in the non-virtual world, I identify this perspective as liberal cyberfeminism.

    1996, Susan C Herring, Computer-mediated Communication
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    At the opening to On the Matrix: Cyberfeminist Simulations, Plant says that cyber-feminism—and/or the complex systems and virtual worlds upon which it is based—has the capacity to undermine the ‘world view and material reality of two thousand years of patriarchal control’.

    1997, Caroline Bassett, quoting Sadie Plant, “With a Little Help from Our (New) Friends”, in Mute, volume 1, number 8, →ISSN

    Cyberfeminism is an attempt by feminists to own a part of the computer revolution, where the field of computer science has established a resistant, male center of power.

    2008, Sue Vilhauer Rosser, Women, Science, and Myth

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekκυβερνάω (kubernáō)
  2. Ancient Greekκυβερνητικός (kubernētikós)
  3. Englishcyberneticclip.
  4. Englishcyber-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁(y)-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂
  7. Proto-Italic*θēmanā
  8. Proto-Italic*fēmanā
  9. Latinfēmina
  10. Latinfēminīnu
  11. Frenchféminin
  12. Frenchféminisme
  13. Englishfeminism
  14. Englishcyberfeminism

From cyber- + feminism.

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