Overview
- Provides a feminist psychological analysis of contemporary resistance to sexual harassment in and around #MeToo
- Explores how feminist discourses have shaped understandings of sexual harassment and social responses to it
- Addresses the gendered binary of female victims and male perpetrators in contemporary victim politics
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides a feminist psychological analysis of contemporary resistance to sexual harassment in and around #MeToo. It explores how women’s assumed empowerment in postfeminist and neoliberal feminist discourses has shaped understandings of sexual harassment and social responses to it. This exploration is grounded in the trajectories of feminist activism and psychological theory about sexual harassment. Lazard addresses the gendered binary of female victims and male perpetrators in contemporary victim politics and the treatment of perpetrators within postfeminist and neoliberal frames. In doing so, the author unpacks the cultural conditions which support or deny who gets to speak and be heard in #MeToo politics.
This book will be a valuable resource not only for scholars and students from within the psychological sciences and gender studies, but for the wider social sciences and anyone interested in the psychological grounding of the #MeToo movement.
Reviews
“This book would be of greatest interest to those who want to learn more about feminism,postfeminsm and neoliberal feminism and the approach of each to victimization.” (Renata Miljević-Riđički, International Journal of Emotional Education, Vol. 14 (1), June, 2022)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sexual Harassment, Psychology and Feminism
Book Subtitle: #MeToo, Victim Politics and Predators in Neoliberal Times
Authors: Lisa Lazard
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55255-8
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55254-1Published: 04 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55255-8Published: 03 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 129
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gender Studies, Personality and Social Psychology, Sexual Behavior, Gender Studies, Feminism