GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE CYBERSPACE FRONTIER

Computerized interactions, while allowing for experimentation, are not yet unrestrained by patriarchal culture. Relying upon empirical findi ngs and journalistic insights, this article explains who inhabits cybe rspace; how it feels to live there; women's negative experiences, incl uding sexual harassment, and feminist possibilities of the Internet. C riticism of the ''boy's club'' atmosphere of the electronic highway is tempered by a description of ''woman space'' on the Net, the possibil ity of bending or dissembling gender, electronic resources for lesbian s and other women, information about female hackers, and a discussion of cybersex. We end with a consideration of the implications of cybers pace for feminist activists and therapists.