Women’s Activism Online and the Global Struggle for Social Change

Chapter 1 Women’s Avenues of Digital Activism: Fighting for Their Own

Chapter 2 KN-IT-Working: Older Women’s Eco-Activism in the Digital Age—An Australian Case Study of the Knitting Nannas Against Gas and Greed’s Use of Social Media for Learning and Empowerment

Chapter 3 “I’m at 100!”: Protesting the Right-Wing Government in Austria

Chapter 4 Feminists’ Social Media Protests and the Digital Public Sphere in Turkey

Chapter 5 A Technopolitical Approach of the Feminist Performance Un Violador en tu Camino [A Rapist in Your Path]: Exploratory Insights from Online Videos

Chapter 6 Intersectionality in Feminist Hashtags and Democracy: How the Black Women’s Day in Brazil Mobilizes Specificities within the Feminist Movement

Chapter 7 “My Body is Not Your Crime Scene”: The Polarization and “Weaponization” of Women’s Online Activism on South Africa’s Twittersphere

Chapter 8 #NoIsNo. Shaping Public Debate on Rape Culture and Sexual Assault in Spain through Social Media

Chapter 9 Politicization of Motherhood as a Mode of Digital Activism: The Case of Iran’s Mourning Mothers

Chapter 10 Mobilizing the Everyday Activist: Digital Communication Toward Action as the Women’s March Advances from Grassroots Activism

Chapter 11 Safe Spaces on Social Media Platforms: Selective Censorship and Content Moderation in Reddit’s r/TwoXChromosomes

Chapter 12 ‘Intersectional, Queer Feminist Magazine’ Made by White People? An Analysis of Digital Feminist Debates on Popular Intersectionality in Germany

Chapter 13 “Ca_Va_Saigner” (“There Will be Blood”): Digital Menstrual Activism in France

Chapter 14 “Feminism in India” Framing #MeTooIndia: A Case of Digital Activism

Chapter 15 Conclusion