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Hate Speech against Women Online

Concepts and Countermeasures

Louise Richardson-Self

Why are women so frequently targeted with hate speech online and what can we do about it? Psychological explanations for the problem of woman-hating overlook important features of our social world that encourage latent feelings of hostility toward women, even despite our consciously-held ideals of equality. Louise Richardson-Self investigates the woman-hostile norms of the English-speaking internet, the ‘rules’ of engagement in these social spaces, and the narratives we tell ourselves about who gets to inhabit such spaces. It examines the dominant imaginings (images, impressions, stereotypes, and ideas) of women that are shared in acts of hate speech, highlighting their ‘emotional stickiness’. But offering strategies through which we may reimagine our norms of online engagement, the stories that justify those norms, and the logic that makes sense of it all, this book shows how we can create alternative visions of what it means to take up online space as a woman and to ensure that women are seen as entitled to be there. By exploring aspects of ‘social imaginaries’ theory and applying it to the problem of hate speech against women online, this book illuminates why woman-hating has become such a prominent feature of this environment and how we can make these spaces safer for women.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
Pages: 218 • Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-5381-4779-5 • Hardback • October 2021 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-5381-4781-8 • Paperback • August 2023 • $40.00 • (£30.00)
978-1-5381-4780-1 • eBook • October 2021 • $38.00 • (£30.00)
Series: Social Imaginaries
Subjects: Philosophy / Social, Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Social Science / Media Studies

Louise Richardson-Self is lecturer in philosophy and gender studies at the University of Tasmania. She currently holds two prestigious Australian Research Council grants investigating women’s and queer rights and in 2019 she was the recipient of the Annette Baier Prize awarded by the Australasian Association of Philosophy for most outstanding philosophical paper published by an Australasian woman in 2018. In 2017, she was a Residential Research Fellow with the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute’s Humility and Conviction in Public Life project. In 2016, she was awarded the Australian Academy of the Humanities’ Max Crawford Medal, Australia’s most prestigious early-career award for achievement and promise in the humanities. She is the author of Justifying Same-Sex Marriage: A Philosophical Investigation (2015).

Introduction: Hate Speech Against Women Online

Chapter 1: Social Imaginaries and Imagined Subjects

Chapter 2: Sexual Imaginaries

Chapter 3: Conceptualising Hate Speech

Chapter 4: Analysing Hate Speech Against Women Online

Chapter 5: Countermeasures Against Online Hate Speech

Chapter 6: Challenging Images of Cyberspace

Conclusion: Imaginal (R)Evolution

This book is a superb analysis of the urgent matter of online hate speech, particularly online misogyny. It asks the questions: what does such the speech do, who does it do it to, and how can it be countered? Richardson-Self approaches this through the framework of the social imaginary and articulates the damaging ,and often pre-reflective, imaginaries which both enable such speech and which it reinforces and reproduces. She convincingly demonstrates that such practices of abuse damage groups and not just individuals and explores the range of strategies, legal and other which can be employed to counter such damage. This includes the search for counter imaginings which can take affective hold. There are no easy solutions but we all need this book to get clear exactly what is at issue and to creatively inform our pathways of resistance. This is sophisticated philosophical analysis applied in an exemplary way to one of the key issues of our times.


— Kathleen Lennon, , professor emerita of philosophy at the University of Hull


This timely and thought-provoking book presents a brilliant and compelling analysis of online hate speech against women. At the same time, it offers an innovative yet pragmatic approach to ameliorating the harm inflicted by contemporary digital imaginaries. Richardson-Self is at the forefront of an emergent counter-imaginary movement that speaks back to spiteful power with force and dignity.


— Moira Gatens, Challis Professor of Philosophy, University of Sydney


Hate Speech against Women Online

Concepts and Countermeasures

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Hardback
Paperback
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Summary
Summary
  • Why are women so frequently targeted with hate speech online and what can we do about it? Psychological explanations for the problem of woman-hating overlook important features of our social world that encourage latent feelings of hostility toward women, even despite our consciously-held ideals of equality. Louise Richardson-Self investigates the woman-hostile norms of the English-speaking internet, the ‘rules’ of engagement in these social spaces, and the narratives we tell ourselves about who gets to inhabit such spaces. It examines the dominant imaginings (images, impressions, stereotypes, and ideas) of women that are shared in acts of hate speech, highlighting their ‘emotional stickiness’. But offering strategies through which we may reimagine our norms of online engagement, the stories that justify those norms, and the logic that makes sense of it all, this book shows how we can create alternative visions of what it means to take up online space as a woman and to ensure that women are seen as entitled to be there. By exploring aspects of ‘social imaginaries’ theory and applying it to the problem of hate speech against women online, this book illuminates why woman-hating has become such a prominent feature of this environment and how we can make these spaces safer for women.
Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
    Pages: 218 • Trim: 6¼ x 9
    978-1-5381-4779-5 • Hardback • October 2021 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
    978-1-5381-4781-8 • Paperback • August 2023 • $40.00 • (£30.00)
    978-1-5381-4780-1 • eBook • October 2021 • $38.00 • (£30.00)
    Series: Social Imaginaries
    Subjects: Philosophy / Social, Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Social Science / Media Studies
Author
Author
  • Louise Richardson-Self is lecturer in philosophy and gender studies at the University of Tasmania. She currently holds two prestigious Australian Research Council grants investigating women’s and queer rights and in 2019 she was the recipient of the Annette Baier Prize awarded by the Australasian Association of Philosophy for most outstanding philosophical paper published by an Australasian woman in 2018. In 2017, she was a Residential Research Fellow with the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute’s Humility and Conviction in Public Life project. In 2016, she was awarded the Australian Academy of the Humanities’ Max Crawford Medal, Australia’s most prestigious early-career award for achievement and promise in the humanities. She is the author of Justifying Same-Sex Marriage: A Philosophical Investigation (2015).

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Introduction: Hate Speech Against Women Online

    Chapter 1: Social Imaginaries and Imagined Subjects

    Chapter 2: Sexual Imaginaries

    Chapter 3: Conceptualising Hate Speech

    Chapter 4: Analysing Hate Speech Against Women Online

    Chapter 5: Countermeasures Against Online Hate Speech

    Chapter 6: Challenging Images of Cyberspace

    Conclusion: Imaginal (R)Evolution

Reviews
Reviews
  • This book is a superb analysis of the urgent matter of online hate speech, particularly online misogyny. It asks the questions: what does such the speech do, who does it do it to, and how can it be countered? Richardson-Self approaches this through the framework of the social imaginary and articulates the damaging ,and often pre-reflective, imaginaries which both enable such speech and which it reinforces and reproduces. She convincingly demonstrates that such practices of abuse damage groups and not just individuals and explores the range of strategies, legal and other which can be employed to counter such damage. This includes the search for counter imaginings which can take affective hold. There are no easy solutions but we all need this book to get clear exactly what is at issue and to creatively inform our pathways of resistance. This is sophisticated philosophical analysis applied in an exemplary way to one of the key issues of our times.


    — Kathleen Lennon, , professor emerita of philosophy at the University of Hull


    This timely and thought-provoking book presents a brilliant and compelling analysis of online hate speech against women. At the same time, it offers an innovative yet pragmatic approach to ameliorating the harm inflicted by contemporary digital imaginaries. Richardson-Self is at the forefront of an emergent counter-imaginary movement that speaks back to spiteful power with force and dignity.


    — Moira Gatens, Challis Professor of Philosophy, University of Sydney


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