(Un)Gendered Experiences in the Virtual Space

This book critically examines the ever-evolving relationship between gender, identity and technology, investigating how identity is shaped, expressed and contested within virtual environments.

Indrani Mukherjee is a socio-cultural anthropologist. She is Ethics Officer of the Indian Anthropological Association (IAA); Editor, IAA Newsletter; and Chair, IUAES Commission on Anthropology, Public Policy and Development Practice. Subhadra Mitra Channa is Professor of Anthropology (Retd.), Delhi University, India and is Co-Editor of Reviews in Anthropology. Her research interests include gender, cosmology, inequality and marginalisation, identity and urban studies.

List of Figures. List of Contributors. Preface. Introduction 1. Virtual "body" through (un)gendered emojis:) 2. Fractal rhythms of Tinder, trust, and gendered relationships in Cape Town, South Africa 3. An ethnography of mobility in a dating homo-affective app: the prominence of re-westernisation processes 4. "We share everything here": Femininity and Nationality through a WhatsApp group of Jewish women married to Arab-Muslim men 5. Gated but unbound: Ethnographic reflections through a women's WhatsApp group during COVID-19 and ethical moments of crisis (Gurgaon, India) 6. When faith meets feminism: Progressive Evangelical women's experiences and their activism in the virtual space 7. Perceptions and categorisations of gender-based online hate speech 8. Misogyny and gender censorship in the digital age. Index.