| Description |
xv, 269 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
A Thousand Aunts with Modems / Elizabeth Reba Weise -- Come In, CQ: The Body on the Wire / Ellen Ullman -- The Memoirs of a Token: An Aging Berkeley Feminist Examines Wired / Paulina Borsook -- How Hard Can It Be? / Karen Coyle -- Closure Was Never a Goal in this Piece / Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall -- Estrogen Brigades and "Bit Tits" Threads: Media Fandom Online and Off / Susan Clerc -- Elites, Lamers, Narcs and Whores: Exploring the Computer Underground / Netta "grayarea" Gilboa -- We Are Geeks, and We Are Not Guys: The Systers Mailing List / L. Jean Camp -- Not for the Faint of Heart: Contemplations on Usenet / Judy Anderson "yduJ" -- The Price of Admission: Harassment and Free Speech in the Wild, Wild West / Stephanie Brail -- Sex, Fear and Condescension on Campus: Cybercensorship at Carnegie Mellon / Donna M. Riley -- Cocktails and Thumbtacks in the Old West: What Would Emily Post Say? / Laurel A. Sutton -- "So Please Stop, Thank You": Girls Online / Michele Evard |
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MUDder? I Hardly Know 'Er! Adventures of a Feminist MUDder / Lori Kendall -- Like Magic, Only Real / Tari Lin Fanderclai -- Coming Apart at the Seams: Sex, Text and the Virtual Body / Shannon McRae |
| Summary |
Ellen Ullman shares an email courtship - Paulina Borsook exposes gender attitudes at the digerati's magazine of record - Karen Coyle on overcoming macho stereotypes - Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall reflect on their art/research collaboration - Susan Clerc and the zeal of media fandom - Netta Gilboa explores hackers' attitudes toward women - Jean Camp on the Internet's safe havens - Judy Anderson's advice on dodging Usenet flames - Stephanie Brail seeks the line between free speech and harassment - Donna Riley reveals the story of the Clitoral Hoods - Laurel Sutton and the nuances of netiquette - Michele Evard takes news-groups to the fifth grade |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Internet -- Social aspects.
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Women in technology.
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Cyberspace -- Social aspects.
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Feminivm -- Computer network resources
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Internet.
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Feminism -- Computer network resources.
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Women's studies -- Computer network resources.
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Women -- Computer network resources.
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| Author |
Weise, Elizabeth Reba, 1962-
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Cherny, Lynn.
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| LC no. |
95051742 |
| ISBN |
1878067737 alkaline paper |
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