| Title | : | #MeToo and Beyond: Perspectives on a Global Movement |
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| ISBN | : | 0813195594 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780813195599 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 |
| Publication | : | Published July 26, 2022 |
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Before #MeToo became a massive global movement, these were the hashtags that represented activists from Ukraine to Peru who demanded accountability for the sexual violence and racism, xenophobia, and misogyny inflicted on women, transgender people, and girls. Led by activists such as Tarana Burke, who popularized the phrase "me too," these movements provided a call to action for survivors across the world to speak out about their experiences.
In #MeToo and Beyond , M. Cristina Alcalde and Paula-Irene Villa bring together scholars and activists from various backgrounds to approach #MeToo from multiple spaces, positionalities, and areas of expertise, many from regions and contexts often overlooked and understudied in the mediascapes of the global North. This volume includes perspectives from around the world and touches on diverse topics spanning masculinity studies, transgender people's heightened risk of suffering sexual harassment and violence, the internal conflict in American Jewish communities as activists began speaking out against prominent members who relied on shared cultural values to shame their victims, as well as many other significant aspects of the first all-inclusive international effort to end gender-based violence. The editors and contributors heed Burke's call to amplify marginalized voices so that instead of becoming footnotes, these voices guide activists to frame polyphony as central to understanding past, current, and future forms of gender-based violence and resistance.
The goal of #MeToo and Beyond is to examine both profoundly universal and specific experiences of sexual violence, as well as the collective effort to stop gender-based violence wherever it occurs. Activists and scholars will find this book an important and necessary contribution to current and future discussions on sexual violence and global movements.
#MeToo and Beyond: Perspectives on a Global Movement Reviews
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#MeToo and Beyond: Perspectives on a Global Movement challenges students of the #MeToo movement to look beyond the global North’s dominance of the now ubiquitous hashtag that went viral in 2017 to broaden their perspectives about gender-based violence around the world. While language, culture, and location keep some of the movement’s shared experiences siloed, some are doing the work to bring #MeToo voices together.
#MeToo and Beyond unapologetically brings essays about gender-based violence in Australia, South Africa, Peru, and Palestine to the forefront. Additionally, the Jewish, queer, and trans communities are given equal footing in the book. In other words, the #MeToo movement in this book goes beyond the well-known North American leaders and activists as well as the disgraced American men who found themselves in the crosshairs of the gender revolution.
While we all know gender violence is not relegated to one part of the world, oftentimes those with the largest platforms are the only ones heard, and maligned voices fall by the wayside. Separated into four parts, this book published by the University Press of Kentucky takes issue with the #MeToo hashtag in order to disrupt the relative norm of what the movement stands for and those who lead it.
It is refreshing to read global perspectives on the #MeToo movement because as the hashtag itself implies, many around the world have shared experiences that all deserve equal credence no many where the violence happens or who has the loudest microphone.
