Dissonance and defensiveness: orienting affects in online feminist cultures.
Are there certain shared feelings that orient contemporary feminists? And what does it mean to feel like a feminist now, at a time when digital networks and media culture significantly shape the conditions for what feminism 'is' (Banet-Weiser 2018)? This paper considers how digital culture, as a cru...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Studies Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 645 - 668 |
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