The #MeToo effect : what happens when we believe women / Leigh Gilmore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilmore, Leigh, 1959- author.

Series:

Gender and culture.

Gender and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

MeToo movement.

Sexual harassment of women.

Women--Crimes against.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Leigh Gilmore provides a new account of #MeToo that reveals how storytelling by survivors propelled the call for sexual justice beyond courts and high-profile cases. She reframes #MeToo as a breakthrough moment within a longer history of feminist thought and activism.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: The #MeToo Effect

Part I: Narrative Activism and Survivor Testimony

1. The #MeToo Effect: From "He Said/She Said" to Collective Witness

2. Buildup: Survivors in Public, Trump, and the Women's March

3. Breakthrough: #MeToo Silence Breakers

4. Backdrop: Antirape Lineage from Harriet Jacobs to Tarana Burke

5. #MeToo Stress Test: The Kavanaugh Hearings

Part II: Narrative Justice and Survivor Reading

6. Reading Like a Survivor

7. #MeToo Storytelling

8. Consent Before and After #MeToo

Conclusion: Promising Young Women

What We Owe Survivors

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 30, 2023)

Other Format:

Print version: Gilmore, Leigh, 1959- #MeToo effect

ISBN:

9780231550703

0-231-55070-7

OCLC:

1373346030