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The Internet has become a viable source of news,§information, entertainment and social integration for§people worldwide. The Internet is also a medium where§gender identity operates strongly. Feminists, in§particular, hailed the medium as a domain where women§can assert their identities without patriarchal§constraints and can challenge their stereotypical§portrayal in the media. But does the Internet provide§such utopianism? This book provides a content§analysis of 18 Web sites targeted at Arab women. The§results demonstrate that the Internet is tarnished by§the same gender stereotypes that have pigeonholed§women for decades, circumscribing them in their§domestic roles as housewives and mothers and§rendering them merely as objects of beauty and visual§gaze. The analysis should be especially useful to§students, researchers and professionals in the field§of gender studies.

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Book category Books in English Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects Interdisciplinary studies Communication studies

• Full title: Cyberfeminism in the Arab World
• Subtitle: Analysis of gender stereotypes in Arab women's Web sites
• Author: Dalia Al Nimr
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92
• EAN: 9783639148381
• ISBN: 363914838X
• ID: 06823400
• Publisher: VDM Verlag
• Weight: 145 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 6 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. May 2009

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