Feminism: Reproduction Of Patriarchy

Question 1

UNESCO & IAMCR

Answer 1

State the growing circulation of pornography is a problem associated with digital communication. 4.2 million webpages, 12% worlds websites, offers porn.

Question 2

BARDZELL & BARDZELL

Answer 2

Point out that Second Life has become a major source of virtual pornography

Question 3

MALTZHAN

Answer 3

Points out that some of the most popular video games show assaults on women, rape, prostitution e.g. GTA.

Question 4

HUGHES

Answer 4

Points to the sexual exploitation of women through the internet via bride trafficking, sec tourism, exchange of information on where to buy prostitutes and live sex shows through videoconferencing.

Question 5

WAJCMAN

Answer 5

Says the task of early feminists was to uncover and recover the women hidden from history who contributed to technological developments and computing.

Question 6

SAUNJANI

Answer 6

Argues if women had been more prominently talked about in computing, in history books and in schools. ‘It’s about role models. You can’t be what you cannot see’.
At Google, men make up 83% of engineering employees and of the 36 top ranking executives and managers, only 3 are women.
- the exclusion of women reinforces stereotypes about women about women in technology and has a self fulfilling effect.

Question 7

KRAMARAE

Answer 7

Applies this to the internet, which she says is constructed and mainly controlled by men, despite the fact that women use it as much as men do, and has the effect of ‘muting’ the voices of women.