Phaedra (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} phaedrasdream) wrote,@ 2004-10-29 10:36:00 |
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It is relatively easy to speak about camgirls as exemplars of the pleasures and dangers of publicity culture. However, it was only when I became camgirl myself that I understood that the “impossibly intimate and necessarily distant” nature of the camgirl replicates at the micro-level those I call “feminism’s forgotten cyborgs”: migrant female laborers who work in front of our in-home cameras as maids, nannies, and elder-care givers; women virtually lionized in literature as ‘mad’ but shunned in everyday life as ‘crazy’; and women virtualized through the language of exhibitionism and voyeurism because they happen to stand on brink of public and private space in our society.
Terri's dissertation topic is so fucking awesome. I wanna be Terri when I grow up.
Terri's dissertation topic is so fucking awesome. I wanna be Terri when I grow up.
