The Other #MeToos

Description

From Asia to Africa to the Middle East, #MeToo has inspired local movements and hashtag trends like #AnaKaman and transnational collective hashtags like #MosqueMeToo. Yet, most Western scholarly and popular treatment of the movement assumes it is a primarily Western phenomenon. To attend to the revolutionary international impact of #MeToo, Iqra Shagufta Cheema brings together contributions from scholars and scholar activists that look at specific iterations of the #MeToo movement across multiple communities, cultures, and countries in the Global South. Going beyond gender, this comprehensive study focuses on the intersectional assemblage of ethnicity, religion, race, class, and politics that informs #MeToo and its place in local and transnational feminisms. By doing so, The Other #MeToos highlights the adaptation, translation, and impact of #MeToo in non-Western, postcolonial, minoritized, and othered locales to explore its wider scope and possibilities.

About the author:

Iqra Shagufta Cheema is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Literatures and Multilingual Pedagogy at Middle Tennessee State University. Their research focuses on new media cultures, transnational feminisms, global postcolonial literatures, gender and sexuality studies, and postcolonial film studies.

Reviews

"The revolutionary promise of #MeToo requires we hear about other #MeToos from across the globe. This book fulfills that promise. It teaches us that to bring an end to gender-based violence, we need to create more expansive feminist publics, to find new ways of mobilizing and connecting across time and space. This is a necessary, important, and far-reaching volume." - Sara Ahmed, author of Complaint! "The Other #MeToos is an original contribution both to the field of gender and women's studies, as well as to the scholarship on #MeToo. It takes seriously the critiques offered by transnational and postcolonial feminist theory to make visible how patriarchy is global but at the same time racialized. Taking-up the feminist challenge of connecting theory and praxis as a point of departure, its rich collection of theoretical and diverse empirical approaches makes it relevant to theorists, analysts, and practitioners." - Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel, Professor in Peace and Development Studies, University of South Africa "An ambitious, refreshing, and original contribution. We have long been waiting for such a valuable teaching, research, and activist resource. Despite occasional essays and media pieces on #MeToo in various other contexts, a comprehensive insight into its links to broader sexual violence activism and feminist thought and organizing has been missing. This book fills that gap." - Swati Parashar, Professor in Peace and Development, University of Gothenburg

Table of contents

Preface
Iqra Shagufta Cheema
1. Acceptable Activism: The History of the Anti-Sexual Violence Movement and the Contemporary #MeToo Protests in South Korea
Anat Schwartz
2. The Politics of Dwelling: Screen Memories of "Comfort Women" in the Age of #MeToo
Ran Deng
3. Deer Women Dancing: Indigenous Visualizations of MMIWG2S
Zoe Antoinette Eddy
4. Native Men, Too: Settler Sexual Violence, Native Genocide, and a Dream of Fire
Nicolás Juárez
5. Ni una menos: An Intersectional Movement
Maricruz Gomez
6. From the Confessional to the Ground: Understanding Indian #MeToo Feminism
Amrita De
7. #RageAgainstRape: World Englishes, Protest Signs, and Transnational Identity
Asmita Ghimire and Elizabethada A. Wright
8. Hashtag Activism and #MeToo in South Africa: Intersectional Feminism, Mobilization, and Impact
Lize-Marie Mitchell
9. #MeToo and Everyday Sexism in Bangladesh
Umme Busra Fateha Sultana and Fariha Jahan
10. "Smashing Spatial Patriarchy": #Metoo, #CreateAScene, and Feminist Resistance in Sri Lanka
Thilini Prasadika
11. The Precarity of #MeToo in Pakistan
Afiya Shehrbano Zia
12. Mosque #MeToo, Muslim Cultures, and Islam
Ayesha Murtza and Atia Murtaza
13. "You are not alone": #EnaZeda and #Masaktach as Voices against Violence
Antonella Cariello
14. #MeToo in the Post-Arab Spring Era: A Strategy of Resistance
Jihan Zakarriya
15. The Iranian #MeToo Movement
Farinaz Basmechi
16. #MeToo and the Need for Vegetarian-Feminist Approaches in Czech Republic
Denisa Krasna