Tag: gender studies
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Search for Women’s and Gender Studies Conference In India: Autoethnographic Notes from a Feminist Academic
A search for Gender Studies conferences led me to this webpage which listed the exact same conference, same title, same CFP, same sub-themes, happening everyday, sometimes 3-4 same conference on the same day but at different locations around the world. The first page of the search results contained 102 listings of the same conference scheduled…
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Feminist Engagement With Internet In Indian Context, Cyberfeminism in India
Women’s engagement with the internet or digital public infrastructure and cyber technologies for feminist causes and movement building is briefly called cyberfeminism. In the Western context, feminist scholar Jodi Dean has an excellent theorization of the three stages of feminist engagement with internet. In Indian context there are no documented theorizations. This article briefly sheds…