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To bring awareness 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, the book considers the intersectional assemblage of location, history, religion, ethnicity, race, class, and neoliberal globalization that inform #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.
List 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
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.
Summary
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.
Additional text
This useful, teachable collection of essays surveys how the #MeToo movement against gender and sexual violence manifested in a great diversity of countries across the Global South, largely authored by local survivor-activists.
