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Cyberfeminism is a postmodernist keyword used to describe the philosophies of a contemporary feminist community whose interests are cyberspace, the Internet, and technology. The term was coined in 1991 by Sadie Plant to describe the work of feminists interested in theorizing, critiquing, and exploiting the Internet, cyberspace, and new-media technologies in general.

The dominant Cyberfeminist perspective takes a utopian view of cyberspace and the Internet as a means of freedom from social constructs like gender and sex difference. Cyberfeminism views technology as a vehicle for the dissolution of sex and gender as well as a means to link the body with machines.

Edit Summary Removed the unsourced, subjective definition, "Cyberfeminism is a feminist community, philosophy and set of practices concerned with feminist interactions with and acts in cyberspace." This statement is incomplete and inaccurate.

Removed unsourced, subjective statement, "Cyberfeminists resist rigid definitions of their movement, but it is broadly concerned with expressing and developing feminism in the context of online interactions and online art."

Added sourced comment, "Cyberfeminism is a postmodernist keyword used to describe the philosophies of a contemporary feminist community whose interests are cyberspace, the Internet, and technology." This comment was influenced by Judy Wajcman's article "TechnoCapitalism Meets TechnoFeminism: Women and Technology in a Wireless World"

Added sourced quote, "The term was coined in 1991 by Sadie Plant to describe the work of feminists interested in theorizing, critiquing, and exploiting the Internet, cyberspace, and new-media technologies in general." This quote was found in an entry on Cyberfeminism by Mia Consalvo in the "Encyclopedia of New Media"