Overview
- Includes a foreword from Professor Walter DeKeseredy
- Offers critical, rigorous, and accessible perspectives on #MeToo, from an internationally diverse set of contributors
- Seeks to understand the limitations of the movement, including given that it emerged in the global North
- Reflects on the ways that #MeToo ignited a renewed consciousness about sexual harassment and rape amongst women
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Politics of Speaking out and Consciousness-Raising
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Front Matter
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Whose Bodies Matter? #MeToo and the Politics of Inclusion
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Front Matter
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Not All That Glitters Is Gold: #MeToo, the Entertainment Industry and Media Reporting
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Front Matter
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Ethical Possibilities and the Future of Anti-sexual Violence Activism
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Keywords
- feminist activism
- rape
- sexual behavior
- crime and media
- victims
- SlutWalk
- rape activism
- sexual politics
- feminist politics
- Harvey Weinstein
- Donald Trump
- digital activism
- crime and gender
- sex and gender
- feminist theory
- cybercrime
- sexual consent
- queer
- sexual ethics
- #metoo
- ethnicity, class, gender and crime
About this book
#MeToo has sparked a global re-emergence of sexual violence activism and politics. This edited collection uses the #MeToo movement as a starting point for interrogating contemporary debates in anti-sexual violence activism and justice-seeking. It draws together 19 accessible chapters from academics, practitioners, and sexual violence activists across the globe to provide diverse, critical, and nuanced perspectives on the broader implications of the movement. It taps into wider conversations about the nature, history, and complexities of anti-rape and anti-sexual harassment politics, including the limitations of the movement including in the global South. It features both internationally recognised and emerging academics from across the fields of criminology, media and communications, film studies, gender and queer studies, and law and will appeal broadly to the academic community, activists, and beyond.
Reviews
“This timely collection offers a thrilling and insightful engagement with #MeToo as a media phenomenon and social movement. Asking difficult questions about who speaks, whose stories are heard, who defines what sexual violence is and whose experiences matter, Bianca Fileborn and Rachel Loney-Howes have brought together a wide range of incisive contributions to reflect on one of the most important topics of our age. This is an important collection that will shape scholarship in the field.” (Rosalind Gill, Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis, University of London, UK)
“This fresh, erudite and eclectic collection invites readers to meditate on sexual violence politics and activism within and beyond the #MeToo Movement. It explores debates about the significance of #MeToo within feminist history as well as digital activism and social movements more broadly. It is a must-read for anyone who cares about violence and inequality.” (Nicola Henry, Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow, Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT, Australia)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bianca Fileborn is Lecturer in Criminology at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research examines the intersections of space/place, identity, culture and sexual violence, and justice responses to sexual violence. Dr. Fileborn was awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award in 2019 to examine justice responses to street harassment. Other recent projects include an examination of safety and sexual violence at Australian music festivals, sexual violence in licensed venues, and LGBTIQ+ young people’s involvement in family violence. She is the author of Reclaiming The Night-Time Economy: Unwanted Sexual Attention in Pubs and Clubs (Palgrave Macmillan).
Rachel Loney-Howes is Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Health and Society at the University of Wollongong, Australia. A critical socio-legal studies scholar, her research explores the nature, history, and scope of anti-rape activism, with a particular focus on the relationship between activism, support services, and law reform.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: #MeToo and the Politics of Social Change
Editors: Bianca Fileborn, Rachel Loney-Howes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15213-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15212-3Published: 26 September 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15213-0Published: 16 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 350
Topics: Popular Social Sciences, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Gender and Sexuality, Politics and Gender, Crime and the Media, Popular Science in Law