#wegmit219a : Governmental Restrictions and the Importance of Online Hashtags in Feminist Movements
Abstract: “The personal is political”—this slogan, that became popular by U.S. American feminist movements in the 1960s to highlight the connection between individual experiences and political structures (McCann and SeungKyung 191), appears to be gaining momentum again, this time in the context of online movements. With social media widely accessible, the personal becomes not only political but also something to post about, as seen with recent hashtag movements like #metoo. A similar feminist protest movement started in Germany in 2017, introducing the hashtag #wegmit219a to voice discontent regarding Germany’s Abortion Act. Almost 30 years after Germany’s reunification, the debate regarding the abortion legislation in the German Penal Code thus resurfaces. Similar to former debates between East and West Germany around 1990 focusing particularly on §219a that prohibits the “promotion” of abortions, therefore e.g. banning any information on websites indicating even the possibility of an abor.... https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/satura/article/view/3094
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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#wegmit219a ; volume:2 ; day:03 ; month:09 ; year:2020
Satura ; 2 (03.09.2020)
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Penning, Anne Laura
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10.17879/satura-2019-3094
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urn:nbn:de:hbz:6:3-satura-2019-30366
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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