New Politics of Online Feminism
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everyday experience
femininity
feminism
feminist collectivity
feminist media studies
gendered responsibility
inclusive leadership
intersectionality
knowledge culture
knowledge cultures
microaggressions
misogyny
online content saturation
online culture
online feminism
online witnessing
podcasts
reactivism
social media
social media bubbles
structural inequality
travelling theory
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- ISBN 9781478033219
- Weight: 286g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In The New Politics of Online Feminism, Akane Kanai argues that for young feminists online culture often poses more dilemmas than it solves. Moving beyond a narrow characterization of online feminism as a site of activism and resistance, Kanai attends to the feminist quandaries of being politically conscientious as life online becomes inseparable from the offline world. Kanai suggests that for online feminists, avoiding complicity with patriarchy, racism, and other oppressions has never been more important, yet the self has remained the central site of agency and transformation—casting politics in terms of individual scrupulousness, diligence, and improvement. Under these circumstances, a feminist lens becomes about benchmarking, comparing, and anxiously avoiding the public mistakes that others make in online life. Kanai foregrounds the importance of moving beyond the polarities of correct and incorrect feeling to enable the everyday practices of listening to and learning about experience and difference.
Akane Kanai is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick and author of Gender and Relatability in Digital Culture: Managing Affect, Intimacy and Value.
