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'The Internet promises women a network of lines on which to chatter, natter, work and play, virtuality brings a fluidity of identities which once had to be fixed… to undermine both the worldview and the material reality of two thousand years of patriarchal control' (Plant 2000:325).

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  Claims concerning the possibilities of multiple identity and gender switching in new technologies and the subsequent re-negotiation or even usurping of dominant power structures have been made by others aside from Sadie Plant. However 'seductive' (Millar 2000:59) this outlook appears, there are some fundamental flaws within such an argument... more

 

 

 

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April 2003, Greg Sibley