on different groups of women globally. Women constitute the major share of the increasingly feminized world labour
pool, and changing working conditions are profoundly affecting their social, economic, and reproductive lives, as
well as their family and intimate relationships. Cyberfeminists need to analyse and draw attention to the changed
conditions of the entwinement of women's productive and reproductive functions in the global marketplace.

Increasingly medical and military technologies are closely connected. As Claudia Reiche and others have point-
ed out, much cutting edge medical technology is being developed and tested by the military. Civilian applications
of this technology are already having far reaching effects on women, as for example in ultrasound pregnancy

technologies and in imaging techniques. In affluent countries, the new eugenics of ReproTech and the mapping of
the Human Genome posit that there is a code of codes which must be reinforced and replicated. Those who do not
accede to the hegemony of the code become a new Other, the flesh Luddites, the contaminated and contaminating
mutants forever exiled from the eugenic paradise. In the U.S.A. many feminist attitudes toward women's health
have been institutionalised mostly in order to compete for women patients. As a result, women have largely been
silenced again and discouraged from taking an active role in their own health care. The manufacture and control
of fertility/infertility and the medicalization of women's body processes are vital subjects for cyberfeminist scruti-
ny, critique, and activism. Meanwhile in poorer countries traditional healing practices are being eroded as phar-
maceutical companies and wester medical technologies penetrate everywhere in search of new markets.
Cyberfeminists can lead a reactivation of a feminist politics of healthcare.

Our radical feminist foremothers struggled for far more than the vote and equal rights for women. Indeed, the fight for
women's suffrage, bitterly as it was resisted at the time, in a way served to obscure the real threat of feminist demands
which were nothing short of the complete tearing down and rethinking of the central institutions of the State, the Church,
and the Family. A radical new cyberfeminism must move beyond discussions of women's technophilicAechnophobic rela-
tions with technology to interrogate the "State","Church" and "Family" of digital technology itself. It must move beyond the
problematic goal of "equal access”, futuristic body/machine utopias, and making technology available to disenfranchised
women. Historically, waves of feminism have always accompanied technological change and expansion, and feminists
have often contested these technological changes in various ways.

Cyberfeminists have opened the contested territory of the Internet not only for feminist communication, interrogation, play,
and pleasure, but just as importantly for new feminist campaigns, education, critique,tactical interventions, activist coali-
tions and all manner of collaborations. A new cyberfeminism can draw on a strategic knowledge of feminist history,theory
and practice, to thoroughly scrutinize the effects of technology on many aspects of women's lives and to fashion a politics
of presence, tactical embodiment, and full engagement with the discourses of technology and power, keeping prominent-
ly in mind that all women (all people) are affected by technology in different ways depending on race, class, economic and
social factors.

Currently there is much confusion and doubt about the effectiveness of various resistant strategies on the Internet. My
hope is that we can use the face to face meetings of the Second Cyberfeminist International and the Next Five Minutes for
radical and energetic discussions with many different women (and men) to inspire new strategies for an engaged and ac-
tivist embodied cyberfeminist politics.

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