1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of the #MeToo Movement
Since the MeToo hashtag went viral in 2017, the movement has burgeoned across social media, moving beyond Twitter and into living rooms and courtrooms. It has spread unevenly across the globe, with some countries and societies more impacted than others, and interacted with existing feminist movements, struggles, and resistances.
This interdisciplinary handbook identifies thematic and theoretical areas that require attention and interrogation, inviting the reader to make connections between the ways in which the #MeToo movement has panned out in different parts of the world, seeing it in the context of the many feminist and gendered struggles already in place, as well as the solidarities with similar movements across countries and cultures.
With contributions from gender experts spanning a wide range of disciplines including political science, history, sociology, law, literature, and philosophy, this groundbreaking book will have contemporary relevance for scholars, feminists, gender researchers, and policy-makers across the globe.
Foreword
Cynthia Enloe
Introduction: Rebellion, Revolution, Reformation
Giti Chandra and Irma Erlingsdóttir
Section I: Theories
1. Struggle, Solidarity, and Social Change
Angela Davis
2. #MeToo as a Revolutionary Cascade
Cass R. Sunstein
3. Global #MeToo
Catharine A. MacKinnon
4. Subject of Desire / Subject of Feminism: Some Notes on the Split Subject(s) of #MeToo
Anne-Emmanuelle Berger
5. #MeToo as a Variegated Phenomenon against Men’s Violences and Violations: Implications for Men and Masculinities
Jeff Hearn
6. #MeToo Beyond Invulnerability: Towards a New Ontological Paradigm
Nanna Hlín Halldórsdóttir
7. The Anonymous Feminist: Agency, Trauma, Personhood, and the #MeToo Movement
Giti Chandra
8. Silencing Resistance to the Patriarchy
Eyja M. Brynjarsdóttir
9. #MeToo, African feminisms and the scourge of stereotypes
Nkiru Balonwu
Section II: Contexts
10. Narrating #MeToo: Calling Our Organizations to Action
Pamela L. Runestad
11. On Tambourines, Hashtags and ReRooting / ReRouting Survivor Voice in Caribbean Feminist Movement Building
Rochelle McFee
12. Moving from Theory to Praxis: Sexual Violence and the #MeToo Movement
Vinita Chandra
13. Wieners, Whiners, Weinsteins and Worse
Jack Halberstam
14. Of Moguls, Monsters, and Men
Karen Boyle
15. Many New Solutions to Workplace Sexual Harassment in a Post #MeToo Era, But Will They Do The Trick?
Audrey Roofeh
16. Being a Disabled Feminist Killjoy in a Feminist Movement
Freyja Haraldsdóttir
17. Black Women, #MeToo and Resisting Plantation Feminism
Marai Larasi
Section III: Global Perspectives
18. #MeToo: Anger, Denouncement and Hope
Purna Sen
19. #MeToo in France, a Feminist Revolution? A Sociohistorical Approach
Bibia Pavard, Florence Rochefort, and Michelle Zancarini-Fournel
20. Polish #MeToo: When Concern for Men’s Rights Derails the Women’s Revolution
Magdalena Grabowska and Marta Rawłuszko
21. #яНеБоюсьСказать (#IAmNotAfraidToSpeak), #MeToo, and the Russian Media: Public Discourse Around Violence Against Women in Russia
Anna Sedysheva
22. #MeToo in Post-Socialist Countries: A Comparative Analysis of Romanian and Chinese Feminist Activism Against Sexual Violence
Mirela Violeta David
23. In the Name of #RiceBunny: Legacy, Strategy, and Efficiency of the Chinese #MeToo Movement
Li Jun
24. The #MeToo Movement in Japan: Tentative Steps Towards Transformation
Robert O'Mochain
25. ‘Ana Kaman’ – MeToo in the Arab World: A Journalist’s Account
Rym Tina Ghazal
26. #MeToo, the Law, and Anti-Sexual Violence Activism in Kenya
K. Kanyali Mwikya, Judy Gitau, and Esther Waweru
27. Critical Reflections on #MeToo in Contemporary South Africa Through an African Feminist Lens
Tamara Shefer and Tigist Shewarega Hussen
28. #MeToo Argentina: A Protest Movement in Progress
Marifran Carlson
29. From #MeToo to #NiUnaMenos in Latin America with Focus on the Case of Mexico
Edmé Domínguez
30. #Akademiuppropet: Social Media as a Tool for Shaping a Counter-Public Space in Sweden
Lisa Salmonsson
31. Fighting Structural Inequalites: Feminist Activism and the #MeToo Movement in Iceland
Irma Erlingsdóttir
Biography
Giti Chandra is Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the UNESCO-affiliated Gender Equality Studies and Training programme (GRÓ-GEST) at the University of Iceland. She has been Associate Professor at the Department of English at St Stephen’s College, Delhi, India, and has taught and been a Fellow at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. She has served as Focal Person for the Sexual Harassment Complaints Committee at GRÓ-GEST, Chairperson of the College Complaints Committee Against Sexual Harassment at St Stephen’s College, and as the External Expert on the Sexual Harassment Complaints Committee at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication.
Irma Erlingsdóttir is Associate Professor of French Contemporary Literature at the University of Iceland and Director of the UNESCO-affiliated Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme (GRÓ-GEST); RIKK — Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference; and EDDA Center in Contemporary Critical Research at the University of Iceland. She has a PhD from Sorbonne, Paris III, France. She has led several large-scale academic projects in the fields of gender studies, globalisation, contemporary politics, and critical theory. Her current research focuses on transformative politics and contemporary literature, and on the reification of Icelandic gender equality imaginaries.
