ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I coalesce literature in the subfield of Girls’ Media Studies from the past 25 years to parse out an incomplete reimagining of what I’m calling “feminist girls on the internet.” In doing so, I trace how the internet practices of feminist girls have been crucial to the shaping of both contemporary feminisms and the internet and suggest a need to more thoroughly recognize and understand this entangled relationship through sustained critical scholarship. Drawing on Rebecca Coleman’s theoretical lens of entangled becomings, I reframe girls as more than “users” of a man-made Internet through several historical and contemporary examples, including 1990s grrrl homepages, girls’ feminist blogging, Rookie Magazine, and social media feminisms. Through this discussion and analysis, I suggest that girls must be considered as figures of both ongoing feminist theorizing and internet making.
