Research Paper on:
Technological Connections and 'Cyberfeminism'

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befuddled young man with the pocket protector and broken glasses. A new movement, however, known as cyberfeminism, is trying to change the way people view women and technology. In addition,  this movement is trying to encourage women to use technology to better understand their bodies and identities. How, then, does cyberfeminism help women understand the relationship between digital medial technology  and their bodies? In this paper, well examine the concept of cyberfeminism in terms of the Internet - as the Internet is the one tool that women have become most  intimate and familiar with. Cyberfeminisms definition In order to better understand the link between digital technology and the human body, it would  be helpful to determine what, exactly, cyberfeminism is about. The main problem, however, is that no one is sure what, exactly, cyberfeminism is, although many definitions abound (Galloway, 2002).  For example, cyberfeminism, much like regular feminism, is a philosophy that notes that there are "differences in power between women and men, specifically  in digital discourse" and that cyberfeminists want to change this situation (Is this Cyberfeminism, 2002; see also Marshall, 2000). The above was defined by Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein (Is  this Cyberfeminism, 2002). Cyberfeminism got its start in Australia during the early 1990s, when a group of artists and activities, under the  name VNS Matrix, published the first "Cyberfeminist Manifesto" (Galloway, 2002). The Manifesto itself attempted to describe a co-existence from the female body to the machine, which was the basis of  activism centered around women and technology (Galloway, 2002). From Australia, the movement came to Europe; and during September 1997, the first Cyberfeminist International met in Germany (Galloway, 2002). This conference