Apr 9, 2015
Roopika Risam's article, "Toxic Femininity 4.0" is out in First Monday 20.4 (2015). First Monday is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing articles about the Internet.
Professor Risam's paper "examines constructions of toxic femininity within fourth-wave feminism. Taking hashtag feminism as its focus, this article contends that charges of toxicity lobbed online reproduce divisive dynamics that have shaped earlier trends within feminist movements in the United States."