ABSTRACT
Cyberspace is accessible to women, but how much, really, is the "second sex" welcome? The heavenly vision of a place where "men of all nations will walk in harmony" is one of the prime fantasies under which cyberspace is being promoted, yet despite many cyberspace enthusiasts' public paeans to pluralism, all cultures are not equally welcome in cyberspace. On a global scale, moreover, cyberspace provides unprecedented opportunities for "corporations [to] trade gigabytes of information about money and death". Now cyberspace too is an inner space of humanity's own making, a space where the vilest sides of human behavior can all too easily effloresce. In the past few years neo-Nazi and skinhead sites have proliferated on the web, while USENET groups make it all the easier for racists and bigots to spread their messages of hatred.
