[Air-l] Women in Virtual Spaces

[T Kennedy]

CSAA 2003 ANNUAL MEETING / Recontres annuelles 2003 de la SCSA
Dalhousie University / University of King's College
Halifax, Nova Scotia / Halifax, Nouvelle-Écosse
June 1st to June 4th, 2003 / Du 1 au 4 juin 2003

Call for Papers

Gender

Session title: Women in Virtual Spaces
Cyberfeminism has brought forth the idea that virtual spaces can be an
important
tool for women in the fight for equality. Feminist explorations and
interactions on the internet and World Wide Web have opened up virtual
spaces for women's resistance to political, economic and social inequality.
The focus of this session is to explore how women use virtual spaces, or
cyberspaces (including work in Information technology fields), to resist
oppression.

Topics can include but are not limited to:

How do women utilize new cyberspaces?

Is technology a tool of resistance for women or another place that oppresses
women? What can new technologies offer women as (cyber)feminist tools?

Exploring identity on the Net

The digital divide

Race barriers on the Net

Representations of women in cyberspaces and IT

Women in Information Technology industries



Please forward all abstracts to session organizer Tara Franz tfranz at yorku.ca
by Dec. 15, 2002. No late submissions will be considered.