social media, symbolic violence and the construction of femininity-as-fail
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2018
- Magazine Number
- 3
- Creator
- Barratt, Sue Ann
- Thesaurus
- geweld, misogynie, internet, vrouwelijkheid, Trinidad en Tobago, 21e eeuw
- Description
- The online environment is a force that breaches offline boundaries across the globe, and also facilitates constant backlash against feminist discourses and feminist activism to attain gender justice. This paper demonstrates, through content analysis from Trinidad and Tobago, how online audiences can enforce gender based violence (GBV) as a real threat in the online space through verbally aggressive speech acts (like victim blaming and policing, especially of women’s bodies) that function as symbolic violence.