Digital Feminisms: Transnational Activism in German Protest Cultures

TY - JOUR

T1 - Digital Feminisms: Transnational Activism in German Protest Cultures

AU - Scharff, Christina

AU - Smith-Prei , Carrie

AU - Stehle, Maria

PY - 2016/1/8

Y1 - 2016/1/8

N2 - This Introduction provides the context for the articles in this special issue and identifies a set of reoccurring themes. After offering some historical background on the developments of feminist activism and feminist movements in the German context, the editors particularly highlight two main and interrelated thematic strands: feminist activism under or in neoliberalism and the complexities of negotiating questions of race and difference between women in feminist activisms in the highly visually determined digital age. Reflecting on the arguments in the different contributions in this volume, this Introduction seeks to suggest ways in which the ambivalent messages that digital feminist activisms create in the contemporary political moment become politically productive.

AB - This Introduction provides the context for the articles in this special issue and identifies a set of reoccurring themes. After offering some historical background on the developments of feminist activism and feminist movements in the German context, the editors particularly highlight two main and interrelated thematic strands: feminist activism under or in neoliberalism and the complexities of negotiating questions of race and difference between women in feminist activisms in the highly visually determined digital age. Reflecting on the arguments in the different contributions in this volume, this Introduction seeks to suggest ways in which the ambivalent messages that digital feminist activisms create in the contemporary political moment become politically productive.

U2 - 10.1080/14680777.2015.1093069

DO - 10.1080/14680777.2015.1093069

M3 - Article

SN - 1468-0777

VL - 16

JO - Feminist Media Studies

JF - Feminist Media Studies

IS - 1

ER -