The new feminist frontier on community-based learning: popular feminism, online misogyny, and toxic masculinities

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Autor(a) principal: Simões, Rita Basílio
Data de Publicação: 2021
Outros Autores: Amaral, Inês, Santos, Sofia José
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/96263
https://doi.org/10.3384/rela.2000-7426.3359
Resumo: Feminist activism has always promoted informal learning opportunities for men and women. Internet, along with ICTs have expanded these opportunities by affording large-scale feminist mobilising and connection. Yet the digital environment is not only enhancing feminist campaigning but also facilitating the contexts to abusive behaviours flourish. Departing from the concept of social movement learning, in this article, we examine the significance to adult education of the large-scale reinvigoration of feminist activism in tandem with the surge of anti-feminist and misogynist ideas in the digital environment. We argue that just as online social media brought unprecedented opportunities to provide social movement learning, it offered the same tools to misogynists groups, mostly led by a toxic understanding of masculinity. By co-opting the same online opportunities, the feminist movement enjoys, individualised and collective toxic masculinity agency is a potential foe to match, reinventing the same struggle, demanding an ongoing battle towards deconstructing patriarchy.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The new feminist frontier on community-based learning: popular feminism, online misogyny, and toxic masculinities
title The new feminist frontier on community-based learning: popular feminism, online misogyny, and toxic masculinities
spellingShingle The new feminist frontier on community-based learning: popular feminism, online misogyny, and toxic masculinities
Simões, Rita Basílio
Adult education
Digital feminist activism
Misogyny
Social movement learning
Toxic masculinities
title_short The new feminist frontier on community-based learning: popular feminism, online misogyny, and toxic masculinities
title_full The new feminist frontier on community-based learning: popular feminism, online misogyny, and toxic masculinities
title_fullStr The new feminist frontier on community-based learning: popular feminism, online misogyny, and toxic masculinities
title_full_unstemmed The new feminist frontier on community-based learning: popular feminism, online misogyny, and toxic masculinities
title_sort The new feminist frontier on community-based learning: popular feminism, online misogyny, and toxic masculinities
author Simões, Rita Basílio
author_facet Simões, Rita Basílio
Amaral, Inês
Santos, Sofia José
author_role author
author2 Amaral, Inês
Santos, Sofia José
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author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Simões, Rita Basílio
Amaral, Inês
Santos, Sofia José
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Adult education
Digital feminist activism
Misogyny
Social movement learning
Toxic masculinities
topic Adult education
Digital feminist activism
Misogyny
Social movement learning
Toxic masculinities
description Feminist activism has always promoted informal learning opportunities for men and women. Internet, along with ICTs have expanded these opportunities by affording large-scale feminist mobilising and connection. Yet the digital environment is not only enhancing feminist campaigning but also facilitating the contexts to abusive behaviours flourish. Departing from the concept of social movement learning, in this article, we examine the significance to adult education of the large-scale reinvigoration of feminist activism in tandem with the surge of anti-feminist and misogynist ideas in the digital environment. We argue that just as online social media brought unprecedented opportunities to provide social movement learning, it offered the same tools to misogynists groups, mostly led by a toxic understanding of masculinity. By co-opting the same online opportunities, the feminist movement enjoys, individualised and collective toxic masculinity agency is a potential foe to match, reinventing the same struggle, demanding an ongoing battle towards deconstructing patriarchy.
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