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Feminism vs Cyberfeminism - What's the difference?

feminism | cyberfeminism |

Cyberfeminism is a derived term of feminism.



As nouns the difference between feminism and cyberfeminism

is that feminism is the state of being feminine while cyberfeminism is a community, philosophy and set of practices concerned with feminist acts in cyberspace.

feminism

English

(wikipedia feminism)

Noun

  • (dated) The state of being feminine.
  • A social theory or political movement arguing that legal and social restrictions on females must be removed in order to bring about equality of both sexes in all aspects of public and private life.
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , date = 1926-11-27 , title = The Talk of the Town , magazine = The New Yorker , issn = 0028-792X , page = 17 , passage = Women are still forbidden to smoke there... Ardent though we are in feminism , we applaud this stand... }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1996 , author = Jan Jindy Pettman , title = Worlding Women: A feminist international politics , pages = ix-x , passage = There are by now many feminisms' (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). Alongside and often overlapping with older-identified distinctions between liberal, socialist, radical and cultural '''feminisms''', for example (important as they are in their different accounts of sexual difference and gender power), are variously named black, third-world ethnic-minority ' feminisms , themselves far from homogenous. }}

    Antonyms

    * antifeminism * masculism

    Derived terms

    * cyberfeminism * ecofeminism * feminazi * feminist * feministic * first-wave feminism * fourth-wave feminism * postfeminism * profeminism * second-wave feminism * third-wave feminism

    Related terms

    * femicentric * feminine * feminocentric * feminocentrism

    See also

    * egalitarianism, equalism , Wicca English words suffixed with -ism

    cyberfeminism

    English

    (wikipedia cyberfeminism)

    Noun

  • A community, philosophy and set of practices concerned with feminist acts in cyberspace.
  • * 1996 , Susan C Herring, Computer-mediated Communication
    • 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 .
  • * 2008 , Sue Vilhauer Rosser, Women, Science, and Myth
    • 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.