Dear Judy,

This morning I woke up thinking about Carol Gilligan’s In a Different Voice. I read it many years ago, not too long after it was first published in 1982. It was one of those books I didn’t particularly want to read, having been a tad over-exposed to feminist literature a few years earlier, not to mention having a small child. At the time I was so tired I could barely finish a murder mystery, so you can imagine what a struggle this book was.

Yet in the intervening years, it’s been a book I’ve thought of often. From it, I derived visual images of two different models of relationship: male relationship being a pyramid (hierarchy) and female relationship being a network (connection). Of course the Web, not even a twinkle in anyone’s eye in 1982, is the ultimate network. And today, for no apparent reason, I connected the dots....

Is the structure of the Web inherently more feminine, I wonder? When the day comes that the average woman overcomes technophobia, will we rule the Web?

Perhaps a topic for a future WebBeet?

Yours in WebBeet juiciness,
Anna Belle