our blogs, our bodies, ourselves: women's health activism in digital, global context
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Jessie Daniels, PhD
Graduate Center and School of Public Health-CUNY
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians - May 24, 2014
Our Blogs, Our Bodies, Ourselves:Women’s Health Activism in Digital,
Global Context
Twitter: @JessieNYC
#Berks2014 #fem2
medicine a tool of empire
“pioneer” in gyn surgery
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women’s health activism
in the digitally augmented present
One mention of “Internet.”
Zero mentions of “digital.”
websites, blogging, twitter
feminism and anti-feminism
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historical precedents
argues that the Black Panther
Party’s focus on health care was
practical and ideological and that their understanding of health as a basic
human right was prescient
had a huge impact on the way women thought about their bodies – began in the US but has become global
DC Feminists Demonstrate in Congress
contemporary transnationalism
Which feminist movements become ‘transnationalized’ and by whom?
Is the control of one’s body a form of middle-class-feminism-for-export?
A movement? Or a product? Both?
“We work for free and then pass this on... (to younger women). We must create a new culture of work, a virbant, feminist economy.”
~ Vanessa Valenti & Courtney Martin, The Future of Online Feminism
“Maybe we can just be ‘weekend feminists’ with day jobs managing other websites or driving taxis, but when writing about feminist issues is what we want to do for a living, why shouldn’t we be able to?”
~ Elizabeth Daley
raises a set of questions
is women’s health activism labor?
is online feminism digital labor?
Does framing women’s health activism as labor forestall discussions of race & colonialism in feminism?
Twitter: @JessieNYC
#Berks2014 #fem2
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