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Nattering on the Net
Dale Spender

Nattering on the Net

Women, Power and Cyberspace

Spinifex Press (Sep 01, 2003)
9781875559091
| Paperback
278 pages | 6.9 x 9.8 inch | Australia
$ 11.95
Dewey 303.4833
LC Classification HQ1233 .S68 1995
LC Control No. 95215316

Genre

  • Non-Fiction

Subject

  • Computer Networks - Social Aspects
  • Feminism
  • Internet
  • Internet - Social Aspects
  • Women - Social Conditions
  • Women's Studies

Plot

Is it true that women use technology, but that men fall in love with it? What are the effects of electronic networks, of cyber-relationships on class, race and gender boundaries? Dale Spender reveals that men are writing the road rules for the superhighway and subjecting women to new forms of harassment, virtual violence and data rape. But she also conveys her sheer delight in these new technologies arguing that it is creating unimaginable opportunities in education and authoring.