Amazon.com Review
The Internet may still be male-dominated, but it won't be for long if enough women get their hands on this Internet guide for the estrogen-charged. With plenty of wit and lots of attitude, Gilbert and Kile make it clear that a woman's place is on the Net. They make the computers welcoming for the technophobic and return women to their proper place of respect in computer history. The book is loaded with tips for online enjoyment, great online resources for women and profiles of real-life and fictional cyber-role-models.
Review
Navigating the landscape of the Internet and understanding the subtilties of it's geography can be a frustrating and anxst-ridden experience, especially for newbies (official term). SurferGrrrls is here to be your guide and to re-feminize computer history and culture. If your looking for a dry listing of Websites, this book isn't it (although many women-powered "Hotlists" can be found throughout). Rich and colorful, replete with history, factoids and interviews, Surfer Grrrls offers advice from many technospapiens of the female persuasion. It explains jargon such as FTP, IRC, DNS, SLIP/PPP (more official terms), addresses hardware and modem issues, how to pick an Internet Service Provider, cybersex and how to find all the great and interesting things wired women of all ages are doing (and have done). This book offers both cultural perspective and nitty-gritty how-to rolled into one. Surfer Grrrls does more than dymystify cyberspace for the technologically challenged, it illustrates that computer geekdom is, in no way, strictly a male domain. -- From The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by Ilene Rosoff
Surfer Grrrls is written by women and specifically for those legions of women who now want to get online. This cyberguide for women is clear, to the point, and easy to use, and it takes women step-by-step through the process of how to get online and how to make the most of it when there. But much more than just a how-to guidebook or listing of cool Websites, Surfer Grrrls also explores the culture and history of the Internet and interviews important online women, showing where women have been, what they're doing now, and encouraging readers to get out there and make their own mark in the cyberscape! -- Midwest Book Review
Surfer Grrrls is written by women and specifically for those legions of women who now want to get online. This cyberguide for women is clear, to the point, and easy to use, and it takes women step-by-step through the process of how to get online and how to make the most of it when there. But much more than just a how-to guidebook or listing of cool Websites, Surfer Grrrls also explores the culture and history of the Internet and interviews important online women, showing where women have been, what they're doing now, and encouraging readers to get out there and make their own mark in the cyberscape! -- Midwest Book Review
