The new feminist frontier on community-based learning: popular feminism, online misogyny, and toxic masculinities
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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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The new feminist frontier on community-based learning: popular feminism, online misogyny, and toxic masculinitiesAdult educationDigital feminist activismMisogynySocial movement learningToxic masculinitiesFeminist 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.Linköping University Electronic Press2021-05-31info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10316/96263http://hdl.handle.net/10316/96263https://doi.org/10.3384/rela.2000-7426.3359eng2000-7426https://rela.ep.liu.se/article/view/3359Simões, Rita BasílioAmaral, InêsSantos, Sofia Joséinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2022-05-25T02:42:27Zoai:estudogeral.uc.pt:10316/96263Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:14:33.964929Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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The new feminist frontier on community-based learning: popular feminism, online misogyny, and toxic masculinities |
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The new feminist frontier on community-based learning: popular feminism, online misogyny, and toxic masculinities |
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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 |
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The new feminist frontier on community-based learning: popular feminism, online misogyny, and toxic masculinities |
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The new feminist frontier on community-based learning: popular feminism, online misogyny, and toxic masculinities |
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The new feminist frontier on community-based learning: popular feminism, online misogyny, and toxic masculinities |
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The new feminist frontier on community-based learning: popular feminism, online misogyny, and toxic masculinities |
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The new feminist frontier on community-based learning: popular feminism, online misogyny, and toxic masculinities |
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Simões, Rita Basílio |
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Simões, Rita Basílio Amaral, Inês Santos, Sofia José |
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Amaral, Inês Santos, Sofia José |
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Simões, Rita Basílio Amaral, Inês Santos, Sofia José |
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Adult education Digital feminist activism Misogyny Social movement learning Toxic masculinities |
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Adult education Digital feminist activism Misogyny Social movement learning Toxic masculinities |
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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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