1st Edition

#MeToo A Rhetorical Zeitgeist

Edited By Lisa M. Corrigan Copyright 2022
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

This edited collection on #MeToo activism challenges the overwhelming whiteness and straightness of #MeToo discourse and coverage. Using intersectional and decolonial frameworks and historical, archival, organizational and legal methods, these essays offer a rich exploration of #MeToo to understand how activism around sexualized violence reproduce and harm a wide variety of people. The swift... Read more

Introduction: The #MeToo Moment - A Rhetorical Zeitgeist 
Lisa M. Corrigan 
1. (Trans)forming #MeToo: Toward a Networked Response to Gender Violence 
V. Jo Hsu 
2. Expendables for Whom: Terry Crews and the Erasure of Black Male Victims of Sexual Assault and Rape 
Tommy J. Curry 
3. #AzizAnsariToo?: Desi Masculinity in America and Performing Funny Cute 
Ali Na 
4. Anger’s Volumes: Rhetorics of Amplification and Aggregation in #MeToo 
Emily Winderman 
5. "Our Bodies Are Not Terra Nullius": Building a Decolonial Feminist Resistance to Gendered Violence 
Ashley Noel Mack and Tiara R. Na’puti 
6. Isolating Structures of Sexual Harassment in Crowdsourced Data on Higher Education 
Tiffany A. Dykstra-DeVette and Carlos Tarin 

Biography

Lisa M. Corrigan is Professor of Communication and Director of the Gender Studies Program at the University of Arkansas, USA. She is the author of: Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation (2016) and Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties (2020). She also co-hosts a popular podcast with Laura Weiderhaft called Lean Back: Critical Feminist Conversations.