The Limitations of Social Media Feminism

<div><div>#MeToo. Digital networking. Facebook groups. Social media continues to be positioned by social movement scholars as an exciting new tool that has propelled feminism into a dynamic fourth wave of the movement. But how does male power play out on social media, and what is the political significance of women using male-controlled and algorithmically curated platforms for feminism? </div><div><br></div><div>To answer these questions, Megarry foregrounds an analysis of the practices and ethics of the historical Women''s Liberation Movement (WLM), including the revolutionary characteristics of face-to-face organising and the development of an autonomous print culture. Centering discussions of time, space and surveillance, she utilises radical and lesbian feminist theory to expose the contradictions between the political project of women''s liberation and the dominant celebratory narratives of Web 2.0. This is the first book to seriously consider how social media perp