writing (post)feminism
current editor/sJoseph Tabbi
number of texts31
last activity03-17-2006
current editor/s09-15-1996
last activityElizabeth Joyce, Gay Lynn Crossley
THREAD EDITOR'S STATEMENT:
Postfeminism remains an awkward yet laudable movement among younger women, and women no longer young - one which embraces pluralism and homosexuality, one which expects that women are just as involved in the electronic frontier of the Web as men are.
top 2006
reconfiguredrip
Global Politics and the Feminist Question

Ara Wilson writes a riposte on the gathering of "waves" essays; she points out that global feminist politics provides a necessary perspective on debates about the current state of feminism.
reconfigured
Introduction: Waves

Lisa Joyce introduces this new gathering, titled "waves," of postfeminist essays.
concurrent
Then isn't it all just 'hacktivism'?

Karim A. Remtulla asks to what degree postfeminism is identical with hactivism?
appropriated
Towards a Loosening of Categories: Multi-Mimesis, Feminism, and Hypertext

Jess M.  Laccetti presents a theory of "multi-mimesis" as a way to redefine female subjectivity.
reconfiguredrip2
Postfeminism vs. the Third Wave

Alison Piepmeier examines the differences in postfeminism and third-wave feminism.
top 2005
collectively
Feminism, Geography, and Chandra Mohanty

Julie Cupples reviews a retrospective collection of essays by Chandra Mohanty on the geopolitics of gender and race.
exemplary
A response to Lisa Yaszek and writing postfeminism

Cris Mazza on hijacking the terms of postfeminism.
(fem)sci-fi
I'll be a postfeminist in a postpatriarchy, or, Can We Really Imagine Life after Feminism?

From origin stories to progressive science fiction, Lisa Yaszek studies the changing face of feminsim.
programmed
Language rules

geniwate writes along with sexless software agents and dismantles the gender politics of the programming man and his machine.
hackpacifist
From Cyborgs to Hacktivists: Postfeminist Disobedience and Virtual Communities

Carolyn Guertin surveys the politics of Hacktivist women.
womblike
Writing as a Woman: Annie Abrahams' e-writing

Is there such a thing as womens' writng? Or, for that matter, womens' media? Elisabeth Joyce moves through the work of Annie Abrahams and writes against restrictive domestications of electronic media.
zealous
Permission to Read

"Rather than gathering in the South Ballroom for the plenary, we read into gardens, playrooms, cars, stores, home offices, and kitchen tables. These sites are not homey, though, in any Palmolive way." Bill Stobb reviews a collection of writers who consider the complexities of artmaking and motherhood.
solo
Tank Girl, Postfeminist Media Manifesto

Elyce Helford frames Tank Girl as a portrait of the postfeminist woman: hyper-individualist and hyper-sexual - a woman who is quite comfortable in popular cinema but not so much so in reality.
top 2004
disclosure
The Female Narrator

Judy Malloy on the voice of female narrators.
amplified
The Domestic as Virtual Reality: Reflections on NetArt and Postfeminism

Jess Loseby on "cyber-domestic" aesthetics.
top 2002
foetalfiction
Embodying the World

Lance Olsen reviews Shelley Jackson's first print collection.
top 1996
reproductive
enGendering Technology: a review

Martha Henn reviews Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women by Anne Balsamo
gutsy
What is chick-lit?

Diane Goodman on the anthology that helped put the term "postfeminism" into circulation.
colorful
the glory of the liberal white teacher woman

Lidia Yukman describes the experience of teaching people of differing backgrounds.
denotative
Postfeminist Fiction

Elisabeth Sheffield on the implications of the anthology that helped to put the term "postfeminsim" into circulation.
carnally
Can't We Just Call It Sex?

Dodie Bellamy gets to the "dirty parts" of contemporary fiction.
graphomaniac
Of Graphomania, Confession, and the Writing Self

Todd E. Napolitano on the kitsch of on-line journals, most of which have flashed and disappeared since they were panned here, in the Fall 1996 ebr.
illicit
Stealing Glances: Women('s) Writing on the World Wide Web

Greg Dyer steals glances at women('s) writing on the World Wide Web.
post-feminism
Bare-Naked Ladies: The Bad Girls of the Postfeminist Nineties

August Tarrier reviews the 1994 film, Bad Girls.
postfeminism
Writing Postfeminism

The postfeminist issue of ebr was the first to use visual art as a means of navigation as well as illustration.
piecemeal
Stitching Together Narrative, Sexuality, Self: Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl

George Landow reviews Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson.
post-traumatic
No Victims, the anti-theme

Cris Mazza sends in her introduction to the follow-up volume of Chick-Lit, No Victims.
historically
Memory and Oblivion: The Historical Fiction of Rikki Ducornet, Jeanette Winterson, and Susan Daitch

Lisa Joyce critiques the rash of historical fiction by women, circa 1996.
ecofeminism
Feminism, Nature, and Discursive Ecologies

Having women in power won't automatically make for caring, sensitive environmental policies as Stacy Alaimo implies in her review of Carolyn Merchant and Val Plumwood.
origins
"Thorowly" American: Susan Howe's Guide to Orienteering in the Adirondacks

Elisabeth Joyce reads Howe as a postfeminist Thoreau facing the dilemma that 'to inhabit a wilderness is to destroy it.'
visceral
Deleuze and Guattari, Cognitive Science, and Feminist Visual Arts: Kiki Smith's Bodies Without Organs Without Bodies

Martin Rosenberg discusses Kiki Smith's feminist visual art and cognitive science.