Papers by Elisabeth Jay Friedman
Journal of Youth Studies, 2023
From Iran to Uruguay, young feminist activists have taken to the
streets in unprecedented numbers... more From Iran to Uruguay, young feminist activists have taken to the
streets in unprecedented numbers demanding changes to the
gender status quo and its intersections with a host of oppressive
social and economic hierarchies. This study addresses a
foundational aspect of the upsurge of young feminist mass
mobilization: feminist identity itself. To understand the feminism
of this highly motivated younger generation, we ground our
explorations in the lived experience of young Argentine feminists.
We employ a mixed-method approach based on 31 in-depth
qualitative interviews to ask: What do they consider to be the
fundamental dimensions of their feminist identity? And what
have been their pathways to feminism? Their interviews reveal
three distinct identities, namely, feminists, popular feminists, and
transfeminists, each one feeding into their intersectional and
collective orientation, as well as different pathways for feminist
becoming. Because of its global relevance and regional contagion
effect, an analysis based on Argentina promises key theoretical
insights about how youth around the world construct new
meanings of who the feminist subject is and, by extension, what
feminism as a movement entails.
2. The Creation of “a Modern Weaving Machine”: Bringing Feminist Counterpublics Online
3. Weaving the “Invisible Web”: Counterpublic Organizations Interpret the Internet
1. Conceiving Latin American Feminist Counterpublics
American Political Science Review, Jun 1, 2000
Sexualities, Feb 16, 2019
Lesbians in (Cyber)Space
University of Pittsburgh Press eBooks, Sep 7, 2017
Seeking Rights from the Left
Activist Faith: Grassroots Women in Democratic Brazil and Chile
Politics & Gender, Dec 1, 2005
Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) is the e-publishing service for over 270 journals published by Ca... more Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) is the e-publishing service for over 270 journals published by Cambridge University Press and is entirely developed and hosted in-house. The platform's powerful capacity and reliable performance are maintained by a combination of our own expertise ...
Conceiving Latin American Feminist Counterpublics
University of California Press eBooks, Dec 13, 2016
This chapter traces the historical outlines of Latin American feminist counterpublics to show the... more This chapter traces the historical outlines of Latin American feminist counterpublics to show the kind of organizing, including alternative media use, that provided the foundation upon which more recent counterpublics would build. Through their publications and face-to-face meetings, activists during the late 19th and early 20th century developed strategies to name and claim women’s rights long before the advent of the internet. Their work served as a model for the explosion of activism beginning in the 1970s, when new regional publications enriched an unprecedented, and globally unreplicated counterpublic space, that of the Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encounters, or large regional meetings. The chapter also profiles two global communication projects in which Latin American counterpublics were embedded, and ends with an analysis of the very first computer-mediated project to promote women’s rights at the international venue of the 1975 UN World conference on women.
Women’s Human Rights: The Emergence of a Movement
Routledge eBooks, May 11, 2018
Women's Human Rights: The Emergence of a Movement Elisabeth Friedman The concept of ... more Women's Human Rights: The Emergence of a Movement Elisabeth Friedman The concept of human rights, like all vibrant visions, is not static or the property of any one group; rather, its meaning expands as people reconceive of their needs and hopes in relation to it. In this spirit, ...
The Creation of “a Modern Weaving Machine”
University of California Press eBooks, Dec 13, 2016
This chapter offers an alternative account of the invention of the internet. It tells the story o... more This chapter offers an alternative account of the invention of the internet. It tells the story of how social justice-oriented web enthusiasts built the internet as we know it today – a networks of networks – because they wanted to ensure access for activist counterpublics around the world. They concretized their goals with the formation of the Association for Progressive Communications, a network of civil society-based Internet Service Providers. Within this global project, feminist communication activists carved out a space for women’s organizing through the APC’s Women’s Networking Support Programme. From their early efforts to today, such activists have contested the gendering of internet technology as the province of men. In doing so, they have also subverted the West’s domination over the internet by extending resources to women from the Global South, particularly Latin America, to nurture their own counterpublics.
La Red Informativa de Mujeres de Argentina
University of California Press eBooks, Dec 13, 2016
This chapter takes a deeper look at a transformation of the simple distribution list application ... more This chapter takes a deeper look at a transformation of the simple distribution list application into a vibrant online counterpublic. It profiles one of the region’s longest-lasting national feminist discussion lists: RIMA, the Red Informativa de Mujeres de Argentina (Women’s Information Network of Argentina). Large and diverse, it includes members from every Argentine province, all South American countries, and beyond; and incorporates women from many walks of life, who espouse different political ideologies. The chapter analyzes how RIMA’s values, developed through pre-existing national feminist counterpublic spaces, inform their online practices. Together, “Rimeras” have built a counterpublic that encourages personal and community growth, difficult debates, and campaigns for social change.
From Privacy to Lesbian Visibility
University of California Press eBooks, Dec 13, 2016
This chapter shows how Latin American lesbian feminist internet practices reflect their own circu... more This chapter shows how Latin American lesbian feminist internet practices reflect their own circumstances and values. These have led them to focus their internet-based counterpublic work on privacy and visibility. They need a place for their private life, where they can find each other and build community away from the threat of violence and rejection that still, despite significant changes in their legal status, characterizes their daily existence. Yet they also need support for visibilidad lesbica, lesbian visibility, to confront exclusion, bringing the fact of their existence and their demands for the worlds in which they want to live to larger publics. In doing so, they have also reinterpreted internet applications towards their own ends, such as through the innovative project of a blog-based archive of lesbian history.
Latin American Research Review, 1998
, and the anonymous LARR reviewers for their helpful comments on previous drafts. All translation... more , and the anonymous LARR reviewers for their helpful comments on previous drafts. All translations are mine.
Weaving the “Invisible Web”
University of California Press eBooks, Dec 13, 2016
This chapter explores how architects of more recent Latin American counterpublics – particularly ... more This chapter explores how architects of more recent Latin American counterpublics – particularly feminist, women’s, and queer organizations in Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil – have integrated the internet to support their goals of inclusion, community-building, and strategizing for social change. It focuses on the early experiences with the internet to capture that time of experimentation, exultation, and confusion, but also incorporates the advent of social media. Activists have struggled to confront how class, ethnic and racial inequalities, as well as workloads, are exacerbated by a new technology. Nevertheless, they have linked chains of access across their own digital divides; built community on the basis of low-cost services; and made an impact on national and international politics using a range of applications.
Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society
Page 1. Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society State-Society Relations at UN World Conf... more Page 1. Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society State-Society Relations at UN World Conferences > ' . 1 1 / '- - a . 1 i ^H I Elisabeth Jay Friedman, Kathryn Hochstetler, and Ann Marie Clark Page 2. Page 3. ...
Interpreting the Internet
University of California Press eBooks, Apr 1, 2019
After the Revolution: Gender and Democracy in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and GuatemalaAfter the Revolution: Gender and Democracy in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala. By Ilja A. Luciak. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xxv, 297. $24.95 paper.)
The Journal of Politics, Nov 1, 2004
the acknowledged concern of the editors, none of the contributors explores in sufficient depth th... more the acknowledged concern of the editors, none of the contributors explores in sufficient depth the theology of any of the major traditions under consideration, particularly with regard to their experiential bases. There is a notable absence of references to any of the philosophically minded scholars that explore the experiential dimension of religious belief, such as Eliade, Tillich, Voegelin, William James, or Henri de Lubac. Much insight can be gained from a consideration of the spiritual roots of the drive for political power, particularly as it has shaped the Western tradition. The political and historical research in these essays, with all of their potential for cross-national comparative study, is their strength and certainly produces a valuable supplementary text for the advanced undergraduate or graduate classroom. This strength, however, may also be the source of its principal shortcoming, for as conventional political scientists the contributors seem to lack the requisite academic background for a philosophically thorough treatment.
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Papers by Elisabeth Jay Friedman
streets in unprecedented numbers demanding changes to the
gender status quo and its intersections with a host of oppressive
social and economic hierarchies. This study addresses a
foundational aspect of the upsurge of young feminist mass
mobilization: feminist identity itself. To understand the feminism
of this highly motivated younger generation, we ground our
explorations in the lived experience of young Argentine feminists.
We employ a mixed-method approach based on 31 in-depth
qualitative interviews to ask: What do they consider to be the
fundamental dimensions of their feminist identity? And what
have been their pathways to feminism? Their interviews reveal
three distinct identities, namely, feminists, popular feminists, and
transfeminists, each one feeding into their intersectional and
collective orientation, as well as different pathways for feminist
becoming. Because of its global relevance and regional contagion
effect, an analysis based on Argentina promises key theoretical
insights about how youth around the world construct new
meanings of who the feminist subject is and, by extension, what
feminism as a movement entails.