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
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Twitter: @JessieNYC
#Berks2014 #fem2
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medicine a tool of empire
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“pioneer” in gyn surgery
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women’s health activism
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in the digitally augmented present
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One mention of “Internet.”
Zero mentions of “digital.”
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websites, blogging, twitter
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feminism and anti-feminism
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historical precedents
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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
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had a huge impact on the way women thought about their bodies – began in the US but has become global
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DC Feminists Demonstrate in Congress
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contemporary transnationalism
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Which feminist movements become ‘transnationalized’ and by whom?
Is the control of one’s body a form of middle-class-feminism-for-export?
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A movement? Or a product? Both?
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“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
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“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
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raises a set of questions
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is women’s health activism labor?
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is online feminism digital labor?
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Does framing women’s health activism as labor forestall discussions of race & colonialism in feminism?
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Twitter: @JessieNYC
#Berks2014 #fem2
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