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Author Chandra, Giti

Title The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of the #MeToo Movement
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (493 p.)
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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 #MeToo as a revolutionary cascade -- Unpredictable revolutions -- Three factors -- Preference falsification -- Diverse thresholds -- Interdependencies -- Unpredictability -- Complications -- #MeToo -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Global #MeToo -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 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 -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 #MeToo: beyond invulnerability: Towards a new ontological paradigm -- The contradictions of neoliberalism -- Vulnerability and feminist revolutions -- Future possibilities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 The anonymous feminist: Agency, trauma, personhood, and the #MeToo movement -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II Contexts
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject MeToo movement.
Form Electronic book
Author Erlingsdóttir, Irma
ISBN 9781000245554
1000245551