ABSTRACT
While Maedchenmannschaft is recognised as an important voice in the German digital media landscape, the weblog does not clearly fi t national, local, and political categories. The texts on the site are in German, but they also include links to mainly English-language publications and many of their contributions address transnational feminist and, more
ABSTRACT This Introduction provides the context for the articles in this special issue and identifi es a set of reoccurring themes. After off ering some historical background on the developments of feminist activism and feminist movements in the German context, the editors particularly highlight two main and interrelated thematic strands: feminist activism under or in neoliberalism and the complexities of negotiating questions of race and diff erence between women in feminist activisms in the highly visually determined digital age. Refl ecting on the arguments in the diff erent contributions in this volume, this Introduction seeks to suggest ways in which the ambivalent messages that digital feminist activisms create in the contemporary political moment become politically productive.
