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‘Smash the patriarchy’: the changing meanings and work of ‘patriarchy’ online
Feminist Theory ( IF 1.591 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 , DOI: 10.1177/1464700120988643
Rosemary Lucy Hill 1 , Kim Allen 2
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This article discusses the resurgence of the term ‘patriarchy’ in digital culture and reflects on the everyday online meanings of the term in distinction to academic theorisations. In the 1960s–1980s, feminists theorised patriarchy as the systematic oppression of women, with differing approaches to how it worked. Criticisms that the concept was unable to account for intersectional experiences of oppression, alongside the ‘turn to culture’, resulted in a fall from academic grace. However, ‘patriarchy’ has found new life through Internet memes (humorous, mutational images that circulate widely on social media). This article aims to investigate the resurgence of the term ‘patriarchy’ in digital culture. Based on an analysis of memes with the phrase ‘patriarchy’ and ‘smash the patriarchy’, we identify how patriarchy memes are used by two different online communities (feminists and anti-feminists) and consider what this means for the ongoing usefulness of the concept of patriarchy. We argue that, whilst performing important community-forming work, using the term is a risky strategy for feminists for two reasons: first, because memes are by their nature brief, there is little opportunity to address intersections of oppression; secondly, the underlying logic of feminism is omitted in favour of brevity, leaving it exposed to being undermined by the more mainstream logic of masculinism.



中文翻译:

“粉碎父权制”:在线上“父权制”的含义和工作日新月异

本文讨论了“父权制”一词在数字文化中的复兴,并反思了该词与学术理论​​之间的日常在线含义。在1960年代至1980年代,女权主义者将父权制理论化为对妇女的系统性压迫,对父权制的运作方式有不同的看法。批评者认为,这个概念无法解释压迫的相交经历,同时也涉及“转向文化”,这导致了学术风度的下降。但是,“父权制”通过互联网模因(幽默的,变异的图像在社交媒体上广泛流传)找到了新的生活。本文旨在研究数字文化中“父权制”一词的复兴。根据对“父权制”和“粉碎父权制”短语的模因分析,我们确定了两个不同的在线社区(女权主义者和反女权主义者)如何使用父权模因,并考虑了这对于父权制概念的持续有用性意味着什么。我们认为,在执行重要的社区成立工作时,使用该术语对女权主义者来说是一种冒险的策略,其原因有二:第一,由于模因本质上是简短的,因此几乎没有机会解决压迫的交集。其次,为简洁起见,省略了女权主义的内在逻辑,使之容易受到更主流的男性主义逻辑的破坏。对于女权主义者而言,使用该术语是一种冒险策略,其原因有二:第一,由于模因在本质上是简短的,因此几乎没有机会解决压迫的交集。其次,为简洁起见,省略了女权主义的内在逻辑,使之容易受到更主流的男性主义逻辑的破坏。对女权主义者而言,使用该术语是一种冒险策略,其原因有二:第一,由于模因在本质上是简短的,因此几乎没有机会解决压迫的交集。其次,为简洁起见,省略了女权主义的内在逻辑,使之容易受到更主流的男性主义逻辑的破坏。

更新日期:2021-02-02
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