Emma A. Jane - Misogyny Online: A Short (and Brutish) History

A Short (and Brutish) History

This book is for all those dudes who arent calling women ugly, fat, and slutty online, and who only send photos of their man parts if a lady or gentleman of the interweb asks very nicely first.

You guys are rad and I love your work.

If R.D. Laing was correct in saying few books are forgivable, then its surely the case that fewer still are necessary. This book is. Emma Jane has taken some well-worn media and cultural studies orthodoxies and subjected them to a series of trenchant, persuasive, and often laugh-out-loud criticisms. People analysing cybersphere culture and discourse cannot afford to ignore this book.

Chris Fleming, Western Sydney University

Misogyny Online is a rigorous, necessary and at times terrifying exploration of one of the most pressing and rapidly growing forms of harassment and abuse of women and girls today. Dr Janes interrogation of the rhetoric of sexualised, gendered violence and the rise of multi-perpetrator attacks on individual women using digital technology is a must-read for a greater understanding of this phenomenon and its impact on democracy, culture and the individual.

Tara Moss, author, UNICEF National Ambassador for Child Survival, feminist commentator and human rights advocate.

Hello and thank you to my refractory gamerdaughter. Small human, I love you heaps. (Also please stop knowing more than me about internet biz like music.ly and stuff RIGHT THIS MINUTE.) Massive thanks to Melanie Andersen. Your public health brain, hard-arse data crunching, take-no-prisoners critiquing, and cyberhate-free internet experience keep forcing me (in the nicest possible way) to re-think and then re-re-think, again. Thank you, Mel. Nicole A Vincent: a big *\o/* for your endlessly generous input into whatever Im thinking or writing about, but especially into this. (Im working on a Thank you, Nicole generator to assist with the appreciative gushing, but then Id need your help with the coding, and then Id need your help making a second-order generator to thank you properly for the first one, and then well, you know how these things end.) Chris Fleming thinky jukebox and intellectual ber dude: I have to exercise restraint here because someone said you wrote something nice for the back of this book. As such, all Ill say is thank you for being the funniest and smartest biped I know, and also for always answering the phone sponsor-style when I need to admit that I am powerless in the face of my irony problem. Nikki Stevens: please refer to the gratitude entry at www.theasuarus.com. Thank you for explaining about the pale ale, for alerting me to all of the things, for all of the checking-ins, and especially for your superlative contrarianism (a description I know youll say is all wrong). Thank you, also: to Jennifer Taylor, Marie-Pierre Cleret, Tara Moss, and Chris Rojek; to my colleagues at the University of New South Wales; and to Delayna Spencer and Natalie Aguilera at SAGE.

The biggest of all the big thank-you(s)-so-much, however, must go to the 50 women who agreed to be interviewed as part of my cyberhate project. I cant believe how much I didnt know before you told me your stories. You guys are ace and I am so very grateful.

Some of the research in this book dates back to the dawn of internet time. Many of the 2.0 bits, however, were researched and written with the support of a Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) from the Australian government. Thank you, Australian government. Bits and pieces of this book have appeared in various forms in papers published in