Cyberfeminism
Cyberfeminism: Strong Women. Source
The cyberfeminist virus first began to make itself known in the early 1990s, as Sadie Plant asserts. The most dramatic manifestations was A Cyber-feminist Manifesto for the 21st Centrury, produced on a digitized billboard displayed on a busy Sydney thoroughfare... [1] Women are accessing the circuits of network culture, which still appears to be dominated by the male, but they are hacking into security controls, and are discovering their own post-humanity.[2] A circuit that was first and foremost founded by the allegedly weaker and foreign (in contrast to male) female.[3]
But gender is culturally constructed and changes with time.
Cyberfeminism is an insurrection on the part of the goods and materials of the partriarchical world, a dispersed, distributed emergence composed of links between women, women and computers, computers and communication links, connections and connectionist nets. [4]
Notes
[1] Sadie Plant, “On the Matrix: Cyberfeminist simulations”, in The Gendered Cyborg: A Reader ed. Gill Kirkup, Linda Janes, Kath Woodward & Fiona Hovenden (2000): 265-266.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ibid., 266.
[4] Ibid, 274.
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