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Review of: Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice: Communities, Pedagogies, and Social Action
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Review of: Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice: Communities, Pedagogies, and Social Action

Bre Garrett
Computers and Composition, Vol.26(4), pp.302-308
2009
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2009.11.002

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Kristine Blair, Radhika Gajjala, and Christine Tulley's newly released collection Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice: Communities, Pedagogies, and Social Action (2009) calls readers to action, foregrounding that now well into the first decade of the twenty-first century, opportunities exist for intervention in how women as diverse users of technology and from diverse positionalities enact civic participation and agency in a rapidly changing technological world. As a whole, the collection stirs in readers a sense of hope that the naming and analysis of, as well as the intentional connection among, cyberfeminist practices across diverse locations might help women and girls, and by extension local and global communities—including academic communities—to improve their political, material, social, and psychological realities. The collection rejuvenated in me, as a graduate student in composition and rhetoric and as a teacher who locates classroom pedagogy in feminist theories and methodologies, the belief that local and personal encounters can travel and collectively push forward the march to disrupt oppressive and silencing practices—practices that take place in the home, in the classroom, and in the global macro-domain through online technologies. - excerpt from text

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