Transnational feminist rhetorics in a digital world / Mary Queen

In this essay, the author examines the digital circulations of representations of one Afghan women's rights organization--the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)--to demonstrate the importance of a global and digital field for feminist rhetorical analysis. Specifically, this analysis traces how women's self-representations are transformed through their circulation within global fields of rhetorical action in ways that often "fix" these women within neoliberal frameworks of "democracy" and "women's rights," thus erasing the multiple ways in which women across the globe use Internet technology to create and claim identities, agency, and political activism outside of the circulation of one-third world rhetorics of power. This essay emphasizes the importance of understanding the cybercirculation and mediation of representations of RAWA through Internet technologies--a factor that has often been ignored by feminists from the West as they strive to deploy RAWA as an agent for their own ends.

General Education.