1st Edition
Dismantling Rape Culture The Peacebuilding Power of ‘Me Too’
Introduction: Interpreting Cultural Fairy Tales
- once upon a time … Rape Culture is Structural Violence
- a beautiful girl met a handsome prince … Toxic Masculinity and Complicit Femininity
- and it was love at first sight … The Spectrum of Problematic Sex
- until it wasn’t anymore … How ‘Me Too’ Came to Work
- and they all lived better than before … Culture-Jamming Our Way to a Better World
Biography
Tracey Nicholls lectures in Politics and International Relations at Massey University in Aotearoa New Zealand. Previously she taught peace studies and gender studies at Soka University (Japan), and philosophy at Lewis University (United States). Her doctoral work, in philosophy at McGill University (Canada), introduced her to questions of political and ethical significance of improvised music that shaped her research programme. Her first monograph developed an ethics of improvisation, translating practices of improvising musicians into strategies for building more democratic political communities. Her engagement with anti- rape activism has focused on student- led consent-education efforts. These strands of work inform this book’s exploration of improvised resistance (‘culture- jamming’) as a response to rape culture, presenting ‘me too’ as a social movement with peace- building possibilities.
