Gender and the Internet

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Gender and the Internet

The internet can be a very good source of information, but it can also altar information enough to make it unreal. Feminist sites are no exception to this. Many sites in fact use virtual rendering to altar images in addition to text. There are various topics dealing with feminism and issues involving females, some are well approached and others are not.

Women do not tend to have the same type of relationship with their automobiles as men do. In Virginia Scharff’s article, “Femininity and the Electric car”, this relationship between women and cars is explained in depth. Two websites that show how women look at automobiles are, www.womanmotorist.com and www.cybergrrl.com/fun/womenandcars/.

www.womanmotorist.com differs in many ways from Scharff’s article, but is a very good website. This site does not directly say that women drive only certain types of cars. Instead it talks about things such as women and professional racing and even has a section on performance cars. In Scharff’s article it mentions that “It can be roundly stated without fear of contradiction that the times a woman wants to run an electric 30 miles an hour, are few and far between….It is an unnecessarily fast speed for pleasure driving….If the car you select has a maximum speed of 25 miles on the level, it goes quite fast enough.”(Scharff pg 81)

On the website the views are different and show how much things have changed from the article. When addressing the female market, automakers are beginning to admit that "women" are not a single, homogeneous market. Until just a few years ago, all women were categorized as "mothers." Now they are seen as generation X-ers, college students, sports car intenders, 8-5ers, baby boom...

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....plasticsurgery4u.com/

http://www.ienhance.com/gallery/default.asp

http://www.malepregnancy.com

http://www.ivf.com

Bad Websites:

www.cybergrrl.com/fun/womenandcars

www.plastic-surgery.net

http://www.advancedfertility.com/ivf.htm

http://www.ivf.org

http://www.ifi.uio.no/~thomas/po/cryobortion.html

Morgan, Kathy Pauly. “Women and the Knife” Sex/Machine. Indiana

University Press, 1998

Overall, Christine. “New Reproductive Technology: Some Implications for

the Abortion Issue.” Sex/Machine. Indiana University Press, 1998

Scharff, Virginia. “Femininity and the Electric Car” Sex/Machine. Indiana

University Press, 1998

Stone, Allucquere Rosanne. “In Novel Conditions” Sex/Machine. Indiana

University Press, 1998

Terisi, Dick and McAuliffe, Kathleen. “Male Pregnancy” Sex/Machine.

Indiana University Press, 1998

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