What is "cyberfeminism"

n. A community, philosophy and set of practices concerned with feminist acts in cyberspace.

Cyberfeminism is used to describe the philosophies of a contemporary feminist community whose interests are cyberspace, the Internet and technology. The term was coined in the early 1990s to describe the work of feminists interested in theorizing, critiquing and exploiting the Internet, cyberspace and new-media technologies in general.

Cyberfeminism is considered a predecessor to networked feminism. Cyberfeminism also has a relationship to the field of Feminist Science and Technology Studies

The dominant cyberfeminist perspective takes a utopian view of cyberspace and the Internet as a means of freedom from social constructs such as gender and sex difference. Cyberfeminism views technology as a vehicle for the dissolution of sex and gender as well as a means to link the body with machines.