Salon has an interesting article that those of you interested in
identity in the age of the internet will want to read. It might also
make for good course reading in the vein of Julian Dibell's article
about the Lambda Moo rape and the much-told story of Julie the
gender-switching psychiatrist, although this identity play is much
richer. 


The most feared woman on the Internet

By Katharine Mieszkowski


<fontfamily><param>Times_New_Roman</param><color><param>3333,0000,0000</param><bigger>Netochka
Nezvanova is a software programmer, radical artist and online
troublemaker. But is she for real?


</bigger></color></fontfamily><fontfamily><param>Verdana</param>March
1, 2002
 | </fontfamily><fontfamily><param>Times_New_Roman</param><bigger> For
someone who does not exist -- at least the way you or I do -- Netochka
Nezvanova has a fearsome reputation. She's a gifted computer programmer
and polemicist, an artist and a pain-in-the-ass, a critic of capitalism
and fascism, as well as a capitalist and a marketer....


</bigger></fontfamily>http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/01/netochka/index.html


Nancy