The Routledge handbook of the politics of the #MeToo movement / edited by Irma Erlingsdóttir and Giti Chandra.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Irma Erlingsdóttir, editor.

Chandra, Giti, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks.

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

MeToo movement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Summary:

"Since the MeToo hashtag went viral in 2017, the movement has burgeoned across social media, moving beyond Twitter and into living rooms and courtrooms. It has spread unevenly across the globe, with some countries and societies more impacted than others, and interacted with existing feminist movements, struggles, and resistances. This interdisciplinary handbook identifies thematic and theoretical areas that require attention and interrogation, inviting the reader to make connections between the ways in which the #MeToo movement has panned out in different parts of the world, seeing it in the context of the many feminist and gendered struggles already in place, as well as the solidarities with similar movements across countries and cultures. With contributions from gender experts spanning a wide range of disciplines including political science, history, sociology, law, literature, and philosophy, this groundbreaking book will have contemporary relevance for scholars, feminists, gender researchers, and policy-makers across the globe"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of contents

contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

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

Part I Theories

1 Struggle, solidarity, and social change

Bibliography

2 #MeToo as a revolutionary cascade

Unpredictable revolutions

Three factors

Preference falsification

Diverse thresholds

Interdependencies

Unpredictability

Complications

#MeToo

3 Global #MeToo

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

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

6 #MeToo: beyond invulnerability: Towards a new ontological paradigm

The contradictions of neoliberalism

Vulnerability and feminist revolutions

Future possibilities

Conclusion

7 The anonymous feminist: Agency, trauma, personhood, and the #MeToo movement

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

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

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

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

12 Moving from theory to praxis: Sexual violence and the #MeToo movement

13 Wieners, whiners, Weinsteins, and worse

Note

14 Of moguls, monsters, and men

Continuum thinking

Moguls

Monsters

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

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

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

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?

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"

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

21 #ЯНЕБОЮСЬСКАЗАТЬ (#IAmNotAfraidToSpeak), #MeToo, and the Russian media: Public discourse around violence against women ...

#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

Appendix

22 #MeToo in post-socialist countries: A comparative analysis of Romanian and Chinese feminist activism against sexual ...

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.

#MeToo: Overcoming tradition through innovative campaigns of solidarity to combat sexual harassment and violence against ...

#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

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

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

Ito Shiori's story

Final reflections

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: # انأ_نماك - #AnaKaman

The devastating power of stories

On the cusp of change

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781000245493

1000245497

9780367809263

0367809265

9781000245554

1000245551

OCLC:

1162210342