Me, not you : the trouble with mainstream feminism / Alison Phipps.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phipps, Alison, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

Sex crimes.

Social movements.

Minority women--Social conditions.

Minority women.

Women, White--Social conditions.

Women, White.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

205 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : University of Manchester, 2020.

Summary:

Me, not you' pulls back the curtain on #MeToo and other recent feminist campaigns against sexual violence. In a right-moving world, women's anger about sexual violence has been celebrated as a progressive force. However, mainstream feminist politics is unable to tackle the converging systems of gender, race and class which produce sexual violence. Phipps argues that the mainstream movement against sexual violence expresses a political whiteness which both reflects its demographics and limits its revolutionary potential. Privileged white women use their traumatic experiences to create media outrage, and rely on state power and bureaucracy to purge 'bad men' from elite institutions with little concern for where they might appear next. Even more dangerously, the more reactionary branches of this feminist movement are complicit with the far-right, in their attacks on sex workers and trans people. This text is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of sexual violence, and the feminist movement more generally.

Me, not you' pulls back the curtain on #MeToo and other recent feminist campaigns against sexual violence. In a right-moving world, women's anger about sexual violence has been celebrated as a progressive force. However, mainstream feminist politics is unable to tackle the converging systems of gender, race and class which produce sexual violence. 0Phipps argues that the mainstream movement against sexual violence expresses a political whiteness which both reflects its demographics and limits its revolutionary potential. Privileged white women use their traumatic experiences to create media outrage, and rely on state power and bureaucracy to purge 'bad men' from elite institutions with little concern for where they might appear next.0Even more dangerously, the more reactionary branches of this feminist movement are complicit with the far-right, in their attacks on sex workers and trans people. This text is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of sexual violence, and the feminist movement more generally.

Contents:

1 Gender in a right-moving world p. 12

2 Me, not you p. 35

3 Political whiteness p. 57

4 The outrage economy p. 82

5 White feminism as war machine p. 109

6 Feminists and the far right p. 133.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1526147173

9781526147172

OCLC:

1120088806