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The Persistence of Misogyny: From the Streets, to Our Screens, to the White House Read chapter Read first chapter

2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

2. This Isn’t New: Gender, Publics, and the Internet

Author : Jacqueline Ryan Vickery

Published in: Mediating Misogyny

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter maps the historical relationship between gender, publics, and the Internet via a discursive and feminist analysis. Drawing from the author’s personal experience, it contextualizes online harassment within “networked publics” alongside a broader history of gender-based harassment in physical spaces. Historically, the public sphere was constructed as a patriarchal space that “belonged” to men; contestations of space continue and are extended to online publics. The harassment of women has gained increasing visibility within media, academia, popular culture, and feminism, yet early Internet research reveals that women have experienced and been concerned about harassment from the earliest days of Internet adoption. Through a review of academic scholarship and the press over the past two decades, this chapter briefly traces and analyzes the longer history of gender-based online harassment of women in order to map a trajectory of continuity and change.

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Footnotes
1
Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989; it became publically available August 6, 1991.
 
2
For examples, simply search online for images of anti-suffragists posters.
 
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Metadata
Title
This Isn’t New: Gender, Publics, and the Internet
Author
Jacqueline Ryan Vickery
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Mediating Misogyny

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-72916-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-72917-6

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72917-6_2