Abstract
This Essay suggests possible explanations for why there is not very much legal scholarship devoted to gender issues on the Internet; and it asserts that there is a powerful need for Internet legal theorists and activists to pay substantially more attention to the gender-based differences in communicative style and substance that have been imported from real space to cyberspace. Information portals, such as libraries and web logs, are "gendered" in ways that may not be facially apparent. Women are creating and experiencing social solidarity online in ways that male scholars and commentators do not seem to either recognize or deem important. Internet specific content restrictions for the purposes of "protecting copyrights" and "protecting children" jeopardize online freedoms for women in diverse ways, and sometimes for different reasons than they do for men. Disparities in the ways women and men use, experience and communicate over the Internet need to be recognized, studied, and accommodated by those who would theorize cyberspace law and advocate directions for its evolution.
Publication Date
1-1-2005
Journal Title
Northern Kentucky Law Review
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Ann Bartow, "Women In The Web of Secondary Copyright Liability and Internet Filtering," 32 N. Ky. L. Rev. 449 (2005) available at http://perma.cc/EK5F-J8GY
Included in
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Commons, Internet Law Commons, Interpersonal and Small Group Communication Commons
Additional Information
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