Young woman and cyberculture: freedom, subordination and patriarchal reminiscences in the virtual environment

Abstract

Young woman and cyberculture: freedom, subordination and patriarchal reminiscences in the virtual environment

The present work is about the exposure of female images and their multiple ways of exploitation, fetishization and spectacularization in a context of huge disclosure and circulation though the cyberculture. The resource is historiographic review, especially construction of virtual environments of great exposure of female imagery, which can configure violence and crime. The aim is to address women´s representations – body and sexuality – in the cyberspace through themes such as cyberculture, young culture, male domination and violence against women, specific legal rights frameworks and cyberfeminism.