Feminist Blogs

A recent estimate put the number of feminist blogs at 240,000, but, given that this posited the number of "active" worldwide blogs at 4m (some figures put it as high as 27.2m), and the proportion of women who are self-described feminists at 10% (still searching for a Canadian percentage) the true figure could be much higher.


The feminist movement has always produced plenty of meaty writing and lively debate: witness Sylvia Pankhurst's newspaper, the Woman's Dreadnought, in the 1910s, through the pamphleteering of the 1970s second-wave, and the vibrant 'zine culture of the 1990s' "riot grrrl" movement. Is the third wave - at a computer near you?


In April, feministing.com published:Feminist Blogs: Activism, Journalism, or Masochism and ponderings on:

• the "new boys' club" that has seemed to have transferred from mainstream journalism to political blogs
• the ways that power and inequality replicate themselves in the blogosphere
• how can we, as feminist bloggers, approach this problem?
• what is a women's blog as opposed to a feminist blog?
• What are the problems that feminist bloggers have as opposed to bloggers that are women (like the severity of sexist trolling for feminist blogs as opposed to blogs written by women?)

LINK: Photo Credit - Bra Camp
LINK: e.politics - dissecting the craft of online political advocacy
LINK: resquared.org - remixing the web for social change
LINK: Blog This - An Introduction to Blogs, Blogging, and the Feminist Blogosphere