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- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction: Rebellion, revolution, reformation
- The cascading nature of revolutions
- The survivor and her narrative
- The power of stories
- From celebrity women to the marginalised
- Local versus global
- Decolonisation and women’s resistance
- The master’s tools? Social media and feminist resistance
- Global reach
- Justice: Law and due process, restorative and reformative
- Rage and radical rudeness: The disruptive language of revolution
- A different battle: Consent and sex
- The future of the movement
- Theories — contexts — perspectives
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Part I Theories
- 1 Struggle, solidarity, and social change
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 2 #MeToo as a revolutionary cascade
- Unpredictable revolutions
- Three factors
- Preference falsification
- Diverse thresholds
- Interdependencies
- Unpredictability
- Complications
- #MeToo
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 3 Global #MeToo
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 4 Subject of desire / subject of feminism: Some notes on the split subject(s) of #MeToo
- Note 1: From maids to maidens
- Note 2: The medium is the message
- Note 3: Behind the screen(s): A Hollywood story
- Note 4: “Sexuality”?
- Note 5: Aporias of consent
- Note 6: Towards a new theory — and practice — of (heterosexual) seduction
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 5 #MeToo as a variegated phenomenon against men’s violences and violations: Implications for men and masculinities
- The variegated phenomenon of #MeToo
- Cyberpolitics, online/offline
- Celebrities and the significance of workplaces
- The relations of individuals and collectivities
- Memory, forgetting, and surprise
- Shifts across sexual harassment, sexual violence, violences
- Implications of #MeToo for men and masculinities…
- Absence–presence
- Causes–positionings–responses
- Concluding comments: Change/ing men and masculinities
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 6 #MeToo: beyond invulnerability: Towards a new ontological paradigm
- The contradictions of neoliberalism
- Vulnerability and feminist revolutions
- Future possibilities
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 7 The anonymous feminist: Agency, trauma, personhood, and the #MeToo movement
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 8 Silencing resistance to the patriarchy
- Sexual violence and epistemic injustice
- #MeToo as epistemic resistance
- Out for revenge?
- The case of the paintings in the Central Bank, Iceland
- #MeToo vs benevolent sexism
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 9 #MeToo, African feminisms, and the scourge of stereotypes
- #MeToo in Africa and the lack of traction
- The consequences of no consequences
- African feminism: Sugar Dem vs. Pepper Dem
- Men as allies: #YouToo
- African stories: As told by the West and as told by ourselves
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Part II Contexts
- 10 Narrating #MeToo: Calling our organisations to action
- Denial, Part 1: What is happening?!
- What is happening?
- Denial, Part 2: Why did they wait until now to say anything?
- Denial, Part 3: There’s no way they could have done this
- Denial, Part 4: This just seems like a political move
- Denial, Part 5: They wanted it, or it’s their fault because of what they wore/where they were/what they drank
- Denial, Part 6: What boy hasn’t done this in high school?
- Refusing their denials
- Where do anthropology and other “humanising” disciplines go from here?
- Post script
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 11 On tambourines, hashtags, and rerooting / rerouting survivor voice in Caribbean feminist movement building
- The context
- #LifeInLeggings
- #SayTheirNames and the #Tambourine Army
- Witnessing self: A survivor’s perspective
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 12 Moving from theory to praxis: Sexual violence and the #MeToo movement
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 13 Wieners, whiners, Weinsteins, and worse
- Note
- Bibliography
- 14 Of moguls, monsters, and men
- Continuum thinking
- Moguls
- Monsters
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 15 Many new solutions to workplace sexual harassment in a post #MeToo era, but will they do the trick?
- Bring in the lawyers
- How did we get here?
- Maybe this hasn’t worked. OK, it definitely hasn’t worked
- Cascading scandals and the legislative response
- Non-disclosure agreements
- State legislative protests against mandatory arbitration
- Strengthening litigation options for victims of workplace sexual harassment
- States seek to legislate an improved workplace culture through training
- Changes being driven outside of legislatures
- Bridging the gap between a compliance mindset and building an inclusive culture
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 16 Being a disabled feminist killjoy in a feminist movement
- The ableist nature of oppression
- Disability and gender on the intersections
- Being a feminist killjoy in the #MeToo movement
- The solidarity of intersectional feminism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 17 Black women, #MeToo and resisting plantation feminism
- Libation
- Me Too Is…?
- Reflections on a #MeToo / #Time’sUp moment … and now
- How we get over
- Black roots … White blooms
- Which MeToo?
- The Black body as “other”
- Race matters. Yes … MeToo
- Plantation feminism, memory recall, and truth telling
- Space, time … and safety in our numbers
- There is no ME in erasure
- Black intersectional alchemy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Part III Global perspectives
- 18 #MeToo: Anger, denouncement, and hope
- A global story of connection and ambition
- An international movement
- The Twitter data
- Sexual harassment and sexual violence: Not distinct
- Power and privilege
- Inequality of voice, commonality of experience
- Speaking is dangerous
- Rape culture
- Normative standards
- Conclusion: Remaining actions and new strengths
- What has MeToo changed?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 19 #MeToo in France, a feminist revolution?: A sociohistorical approach
- From consciousness raising to outrage about gender violence: The role of feminists (1970–2017)
- “French identity” tested by the #MeToo event
- “Let’s get up and break away”
- Notes
- Primary sources and bibliography
- 20 Polish #MeToo: When concern for men’s rights derails the women’s revolution
- #MeToo — the legal and political context in Poland
- Polish #MeToo: Two stages
- Unfinished revolution?
- Conclusions: The impact of #MeToo
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 21 #яНеБоюсьСкаать (#IAmNotAfraidToSpeak), #MeToo, and the Russian media: Public discourse around violence against women in Russia
- #яНеБоюсьСказать and Russian debates on violence against women and women’s rights
- New digital platforms for women’s activism
- Russian media reactions to the #яНеБоюсьСказать campaign in 2016
- The formation of new public discourse: #MeToo and Russia
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 22 #MeToo in post-socialist countries: A comparative analysis of Romanian and Chinese feminist activism against sexual violence
- Romanian feminist activism: Inspiring collective action to fight violence against women
- Public protest, performative feminism, victims and conquerors: Fighting violence in the traditional patriarchal family
- Empowering Roma women from the bottom up: Intersectional Roma feminism, fighting anti-Roma stereotypes, and community activism
- #MeToo: Overcoming tradition through innovative campaigns of solidarity to combat sexual harassment and violence against women
- #MeToo in China: Chinese feminist activists’ resistance to government censorship
- #MeToo on China’s university campuses: Student grassroots activism and Chinese feminist activism against sexual harassment
- #MeToo in China expands: Female workers, journalists, athletes, and nuns speak out about sexual harassment
- Post-socialist climate for feminist activism: Divergent obstacles, mixed results
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 23 In the name of #RiceBunny: Legacy, strategy, and efficacy of the Chinese #MeToo movement
- Anti-sexual harassment movement and social media in China
- The three stages of the #RiceBunny movement in China
- Before #RiceBunny: Judicial dilemmas and feminist legacy
- #MeToo as connective action
- “#MeToo in ZSYU”: Localised, community-based, and decentralised action
- #RiceBunny and feminism: An alliance?
- Conclusion: The achievement of #RiceBunny
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 24 The #MeToo movement in Japan: Tentative steps towards transformation
- Historical background and social context
- Positive impact of the Me Too movement
- Continuing pressures to remain silent
- Itō Shiori’s story
- Final reflections
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 25 #ANAKAMAN — MeToo in the Arab world: A journalist’s account
- Reporting on the sexual harassment of women: A personal note
- Feminism in the Arab world: Historical and contemporary perspectives
- Religious roots and feminist diversity in the Arab world
- #MeToo in the Arab world: # كمان_أنا – #AnaKaman
- The devastating power of stories
- On the cusp of change
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 26 #MeToo, the law, and anti-sexual violence activism in Kenya
- The global #MeToo movement
- The #MeToo movement in Africa
- #MeToo and the recent history of women’s anti-sexual violence activism in Kenya
- Litigating sexual harassment in the #MeToo era
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 27 Critical reflections on #MeToo in contemporary South Africa through an African feminist lens
- Local contexts of activism against sexual violence and #MeToo
- Reflecting on the political and scholarly uptake of #MeToo in South Africa
- Critical concluding thoughts on #MeToo in South African contexts
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 28 #MeToo Argentina: A protest movement in progress
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 29 Mexico and Latin America: From #MeToo to #NiUnaMenos
- Background: Progress for autonomy within the framework of the patriarchal model
- The #MeToo movement in Latin America
- The #MeToo campaigns in Latin America
- #MeToo arrives in Mexico
- Debates around the tactics and strategies of #MeToo
- Counter reactions to #MeToo: Threats and increased gender-based violence
- The resistance: Massive demonstrations and legislative advances
- Final reflections
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 30 #Akademiuppropet: Social media as a tool for shaping a counter-public space in Swedish academia
- Organisational context of #akademiuppropet
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 31 Fighting structural inequalities: Feminist activism and the #MeToo movement in Iceland
- The forerunners of #MeToo
- The #MeToo moment in Iceland
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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