How to Be a Woman Online

"Blisteringly witty." Kirkus"An essential guide." Publisher's Weekly"Timely." BooklistWhen Nina Jankowicz's first book on online disinformation was profiled in The New Yorker, she expected attention but not an avalanche of abuse and harassment, predominantly from men, online.All women in politics, journalism and academia now face untold levels of harassment and abuse in online spaces. Together with the world’s leading extremism researchers, Jankowicz wrote one of the definitive reports on this troubling phenomenon. Drawing on rigorous research into the treatment of Kamala Harris - the first woman vice-president - and other political and public figures, Nina also uses her own experiences to provide a step-by-step plan for dealing with harassment, abuse, doxing and disinformation in online spaces.The result is a must-read for researchers, journalists and all women with a profile in the online space.

In this guide, a foreign affairs analyst discusses online abuse — “the norm for many women engaged in public discourse” — and the ways women can protect themselves., A call to action for women who have experienced online abuse… the author’s forthright, sometimes blisteringly witty tone makes for smart company… A successful codification of practical, occasionally fiery methods of protection and means of attack., A concise, functional handbook for women looking to combat online abuse… Jankowicz’s advice is strategic, focused, and eminently usable, and her assertion that women need to be there to help one another while also fighting for change feels simultaneously supportive and motivational. This is an essential guide for women interested in standing up for a fairer, safer online world., A timely guide with a much-needed feminist lens., Jankowicz manages to achieve a masterful literary stroke, forcing the reader to confront… very real and very uncomfortable questions. She provides readers with a mirror in which they can gaze and reflect on society today and the death or dearth (or both) of decency. It is nearly impossible in reading to not stop and ask yourself why such a book needs to be written in the first place—not its practicality or utility, but that in this day and age these behaviors are tolerated at all online (or in the real world).

Nina Jankowicz is a Washington DC-based writer and analyst. She is currently a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Kennan Institute. Previously she served as a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellow, a role in which she provided strategic guidance to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. Her writing has been published by The New York Times. The Washington Post, Buzzfeed News, Foreign policy, and others. Her first book, How to Lose the Information War was published in 2020.

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