1. Jessie Daniels, PhD
Graduate Center and School of Public Health-CUNY
Berkshire Conference ofWomen Historians - May 24, 2014
Our Blogs, Our Bodies, Ourselves:
Women’s Health Activism in Digital, Global Context

2. Twitter: @JessieNYC
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3. medicine a tool of empire

4. “pioneer” in gyn surgery
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5. women’s health activism

6. in the digitally augmented present

7. One mention
of “Internet.”
Zero mentions
of “digital.”

8. websites, blogging, twitter

9. feminism and anti-feminism

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16. historical precedents

17. argues that the Black
Panther Party’s focus on
health care was practical
and ideological and that
their understanding of
health as a basic human
right was prescient

18. had a huge impact
on the way women
thought about
their bodies –
began in the US
but has become
global

19. DC Feminists Demonstrate in Congress

20. contemporary transnationalism

21. Which feminist
movements become
‘transnationalized’
and by whom?
Is the control of
one’s body a form
of middle-class-
feminism-for-
export?

22. A movement? Or a product? Both?

25. “We work for free and then pass this
on... (to younger women). We must
create a new culture of work, a
virbant, feminist economy.”
~ Vanessa Valenti & Courtney Martin,
The Future of Online Feminism

27. “Maybe we can just be ‘weekend
feminists’ with day jobs managing
other websites or driving taxis,
but when writing about
feminist issues is what we want
to do for a living, why shouldn’t
we be able to?”
~ Elizabeth Daley

28. raises a set of questions

29. is women’s health activism labor?

30. is online feminism digital
labor?

31. Does framing women’s health
activism as labor forestall
discussions of race & colonialism
in feminism?

32. Twitter: @JessieNYC
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