Feminist Africa 18: e-spaces : e-politics

The advent and development of the internet has expanded the frontiers of feminist activism. Feminist Africa is itself a prime example of the audacious digital engagements displayed by women’s movements all over the world. Established over 10 years ago with the support of Africa’s resurgent feminist community, Feminist Africa is the continent’s first open-access online scholarly journal, and still the only one dedicated to publishing and promoting independent feminist scholarship as an activist project. Originally envisaged as an online intellectual forum for feminist research and activism, FA also produced a limited print edition to address the limited digital access that the African Gender Institute’s survey of the feminist intellectual community revealed (Radloff 2002). However, as access and use of the internet mirrors the sex/gender, class and other power dynamics offline, so do the violations. State control, censorship, surveillance, invasion of privacy, curtailment of freedom of expression and association, and violence against women are some of the issues that internet rights organisations are taking up, and which United Nations structures are attempting to address

ISBN: 1726-4596
Publisher: African Gender Institute
Year of Publication: 2013
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