Weapons of Magic: Afghan Women Asserting Voice via the Net

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The Internet, specifically through platforms like RAWA.org, significantly amplified the voices of marginalized Afghan women post-9/11, enabling them to challenge fundamentalist discourses and construct new leadership identities. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

Beverly Bickel

doi:10.1111/j.1083-6101.2003.tb00204.x

June 23, 2006Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Weapons of Magic: Afghan Women Asserting Voice via the Net

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In the global struggle over discourse and knowledge after 9/11, the voices of otherwise silenced women in Afghanistan were significantly amplified on the Internet. RAWA.org demonstrates how a Web site contended with discourses of fundamentalism and war while envisioning democracy and constructing new leadership identities for women.

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