[Air-L] new book announcement

[Carmit Wiesslitz, Ph.D]

Hello Everyone,


I am delighted to announce the publication of my new book (edited collection): Women’s Activism Online and the Global Struggle for Social Change. Publisher: Palgrave-Macmillan. The book is a part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change<https://www.springer.com/series/14642>. Here is a direct link to the book:  https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31621-0

This book showcases the online activism of women’s groups around the world in the post-#MeToo era, and presents an overview of the diversity of its current expressions. The focus of this book extends beyond campaigns against rape culture to include women’s struggles on other political and environmental issues, such as the campaign against the radical right-wing in Austria.  Moreover, the book's chapters highlight the genuine complexity of the efforts of women activists who are not only challenging the patriarchal order within male-controlled digital platforms but are also challenging the hegemonic voices within the women's movements. The book’s case studies attest to the proliferation of digital campaigns aimed not only against discrimination of women but against discrimination based on their color, age, ethnicity, and nationality. The internet helps them to voice their agenda and strive for social change as well as to create both connective and collective identities.

Table of contents

       1. Women’s Avenues of Digital Activism: Fighting for Their Own/ Carmit Wiesslitz


       Overcoming the Digital Divide and Going Viral: Women’s Online Struggles for Social Change

2.    KN-IT-Working: Older Women’s Eco-Activism in the Digital Age—An Australian Case Study of the Knitting Nannas Against Gas and Greed’s Use of Social Media for Learning and Empowerment/ Larraine J. Larri

3.    “I’m at 100!”: Protesting the Right-Wing Government in Austria/ Ricarda Drüeke

4.     Feminists’ Social Media Protests and the Digital Public Sphere in Turkey/ Aysun Eyrek

5.     A Technopolitical Approach of the Feminist Performance Un Violador en tu Camino [A Rapist in Your Path]: Exploratory Insights from Online Videos/ Valentina Carranza Weihmüller, Ana Lúcia NunesdeSousa, Karina de Cássia Caetano, V. C. Weihmüller, K. d. C. Caetano


An Alternative Democratic Public Sphere: The Internet as a Safe Space

6.  Intersectionality in Feminist Hashtags and Democracy: How the Black Women’s Day in Brazil Mobilizes Specificities within the Feminist Movement/ Bruna Silveira de Oliveira, Maiara Orlandini

 7.  “My Body is Not Your Crime Scene”: The Polarization and “Weaponization” of Women’s Online Activism on South Africa’s Twittersphere/Allen Munoriyarwa

8.    #NoIsNo. Shaping Public Debate on Rape Culture and Sexual Assault in Spain through Social Media/ Elisa García-Mingo, Patricia Prieto-Blanco, Silvia Díaz-Fernández

9.    Politicization of Motherhood as a Mode of Digital Activism: The Case of Iran’s Mourning Mothers/ Gilda Seddighi

10.  Mobilizing the Everyday Activist: Digital Communication Toward Action as the Women’s March Advances from Grassroots Activism/ Kristine M. Nicolini, Sara Steffes Hansen

      Democratic Digital Discursive Spaces of and for Women: Unintended Consequences

11.  Safe Spaces on Social Media Platforms: Selective Censorship and Content Moderation in Reddit’s r/TwoXChromosomes/ Amy Mowle

12.  ‘Intersectional, Queer Feminist Magazine Made by White People’? An Analysis of Digital Feminist Debates on Popular Intersectionality in Germany/ Katrin Schindel

13.  “Ca_Va_Saigner” (“There Will be Blood”): Digital Menstrual Activism in France/ Maria Kathryn Tomlinson

14.  “Feminism in India” Framing #MeTooIndia: A Case of Digital Activism/ Ishani Mukherjee, Priya V. Shah, Tina E. Dexter

15.  Conclusion/ Carmit Wiesslitz


The book offers a holistic and wide-angled perspective on activism and it’d be a great fit to not only women's studies courses but also to topic courses  on political organizing and democratic participation in general, social movements, alternative media, online communities and online campaigns.



Best,

Carmit

Carmit Wiesslitz, Ph.D
The Department of Politics and Communication
Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem, Israel