Here is my presentation Paper 6. Literary Criticism - Western and Indian Topic : Cyberfeminism (Digital Humanities)

1. Prepared by Nishtha Makwana
Roll no. 15
Paper 7 - Literary Criticism
M.A Sem 1
Submitted to Department of English, MKU Bhavnagar.

2. Cyberfeminism

3. The update version of feminism dedicated to new
political issues raised by Global culture and media
society
Cyberfeminism is a term coined in 1994 by Sadie Plant

4. Origin - Cyber + Feminism
Mia Consalvo
“a critical engagement with new technologies and their
entanglement with power structures and systemic
oppression”
Authors Hawthorne and Klein
"Just as there are liberal, socialist, radical and
postmodern feminists, so too one finds these positions
reflected in the interpretations of cyberfeminism

5. - Cyberfeminism can be a critique at equality in
cyberspace
- challenge the gender stereotype in the cyberspace,
- examine the gender relationship in cyberspace,
- examine the relationship between women and
technology and more.

6. Percentage of female undergraduate students with engineering
degree in Australia, Canada, the UK, and US
Australia 14% 2010
Canada 21.8% 2017
United Kingdom 17.57% 2016-2017
United States 19.7% 2015-2016

7. What are the possible reasons
ToysCulture
Gender
Stereotypes

8. So what ?
- Cyberfeminism is the reaction against the
pessimism of feminist approaches
- Stressed the inherently masculine nature of
techno science
- Movement against toys for boys

9. Works Cited
Consalvo, Mia (2003), "Cyberfeminism", Encyclopedia of New Media,
SAGE Publications, Inc., pp. 108–109.
Sollfrank, Cornelia. "The truth about cyberfeminism". obn.org. The Old
Boys Network.
Statista Research Department. “India - Number of Students Graduated
in Computer Science Engineering Stream by Gender 2016.” Statista,
Statista Research Department , 23 Sept. 2019,
www.statista.com/statistics/765577/india-number-of-students-
graduated-in-computer-science-engineering-stream-by-gender/.