Post by Laura Cunningham on Mar 17, 2016 18:09:42 GMT
Banet-Weiser and Juhasz argue that through the neoliberal practice of self-branding, the cohesive community they both experienced in their early days on-line is shattering. Juhasz calls the performance of online feminist blogging as "a dynamic of embattled isolation" where the individual struggles to define themselves in the online market at the expense of the feminist community. Juhasz asks,
Is this a generational problem (my feminism is outdated), a political one (their feminism is tainted), an economic one (the practicalities of the job market trump ideology), or a crisis in feminist labor (the nature of our work shifts under new technologies, institutional structures, and decreasing job security)? (Banet-Weiser and Juhasz, 2011: 5).
Feminism gives us all the tools we need to understand that economic conditions like a depression and an academy that sells advanced degrees to pay for itself, social conditions like patriarchy and racism and homophobia, and psychological conditions like anxiety, should not be suffered as a personal, debilitating and self-censoring problem, but should be understood and fought as political issues best addressed by being named, refused, refined, and remade within the power of movements and with the tools of technology. (Banet-Weiser and Juhasz, 2011: 5).
