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Contents
of the M.A. thesis by
Andrea Hapke und Andrea Jana Korb
"russian" cyberfeminist
strategies between reality, virtuality and fiction
or: What is the
relationship of cyberfeminism to women in Russia?
0. Prelude
Storie(s) of our cooperation. Experiencing borderlines.
A report on our "failures".
1. Introduction
1.1. Preface
Cyberspace and Russia:
Looking for (cyber-) feminis agency.
1.2. Interest and main
questions
a cyberfeminist contribution:
What is the relationship
of cyberfeminism to women in Russia?
What is the spezificity of the
medium cyberspace with regard to feminist agency?
1.3. method
1.3.1. feminist "objectivity"
1.3.2. selfreflexion
1.3.3. cooperation
1.4. sources
WWW, mailinglists, online-discussion project, printliterature
1.5. structure
2. theoretical part
2.1. theoretical introduction
2.1.1. the metaphor of space
2.1.2. "woman" (refering to Teresa de Lauretis)
2.1.3. cyberspace und "woman": (symbolic) spaces of desire
2.2. cyberfeminism
2.2.1. short genealogy: cyborg - vns matrix - obn - queer
2.2.2. What is cyberfeminism refering to and what not?
2.2.3. cyberfeminist strategies in Russia
2.3. discourses about Russian spaces for women
2.3.1. Which spaces are being assigned to women?
2.3.1.1. in Soviet Russia
2.3.1.1.1. the construction of gender in the official discourse
2.3.1.1.2. the construction of gender in the informal-public discourse
2.3.1.2. in post-Soviet Russia
2.3.1.2.1. the construction of gender
2.3..2. Which spaces are being claimed by women?
2.3.2.1. the Russian women's movement
2.3.2.2. feminist conceptions
2.3.2.3. Which spaces are being claimed?
2.4. conclusion
2.4.1. russian feminist und cyberfeminist strategies
2.4.2. How do Russian feminist and cyberfeminist strategies relate to the "woman" and to women?
2.5. expectations of the project
3. description of the project
3.1. introduction
3.2. description of the media: www, e-mail
3.3. working with these media
3.4. requirements: hardware, programming, fonts/keyboardlayouts, time and desire, our (personal) context
3.5. website:
3.5.1. formal description, development, programming
3.5.2. description of contents
3.6. online-discussion
3.6.1. formal description, development, process
3.6.2. description of contents
3.7. our experiences with the medium
4. evaluation
4.1. evaluation of contents
What is the relationship of cyberfeminism to women in Russia?
What are our new questions?
4.2. evaluation of our experiences with the medium
Were we and our partners successful to translate knowledge?
Is the medium apt for that?
What made/did the medium of/to us?
5. Afterlude
Experiencing borderlines.
New storie(s) of our cooperation.
What next? What will happen with the project?
6. supplement
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