Emerging Digital Feminist Voices and Activism in India

Abstract

The advent of technology and virtual media have changed the way it helps to create more multidimensionalconnections. Feminism too has taken the virtual media as an important channel of communicating and creating global networks. Empowerment of women in the new technological realm is an ongoing need of the current digital age as it paves way for essentialsocio-economic and political empowerment.Digital feminism an avant-garde phase of the feminist activism is a growing phenomenon across the world as well as in India, which is being shaped by various social, cultural and political factors.It goes far ahead of former feminist waves that conceived women as a universal and homogenous group, whose interests could be represented by a singular framework.This research paper aims to trace the emergence of Digital Feminism in India, along with analyzing its effect and solidarity of these movements and activism on women’s lives and issues. It also examines the way in which women are using digital media platforms to challenge the gender stereotype and gender inequalities in their everyday lives. The paper also dwells upon the arena where the use of digital media platforms enables, newer forms of exposure and connection previously unavailable to women and allowing them to redraw the boundaries between themselves and society.