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#Metoo - A Rhetorical Zeitgeist

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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 and powerful arrival of #MeToo as a compilation of complaints about sexual misconduct (especially in the workplace) has created pressure to dive deeper into the history of sexual assault and abuse in the United States. #MeToo: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist answers the call for more complicated analyses of systemic sexual harassment and abuse with essays that are deeply concerned with the whiteness and heterosexuality of #MeToo coverage and media framing to understand how and why #MeToo began to capture the public's attention in 2017 against the backdrop of Donald J. Trump's presidential administration.
These essays offer the first comprehensive study of the rhetorical politics of #MeToo. They tackle the complexities of sexual harassment, sexual violence and rape beyond white celebrity discourse to understand: how both violence and #MeToo activism affect transgender people; how #MeToo fails Black male victims of assault and rape; how Indian-American masculinity and comedy skirt sexual accountability; how the legal and affective precedent in the Supreme Court during the Kavanaugh hearings amplified concerns about sexual assault and rape; decolonial approaches to resisting sexualized violence from indigenous peoples; and narratives about assault from within the higher education community.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Women's Studies in Communication.

List of contents

Introduction: The #MeToo Moment - A Rhetorical Zeitgeist  1. (Trans)forming #MeToo: Toward a Networked Response to Gender Violence  2. Expendables for Whom: Terry Crews and the Erasure of Black Male Victims of Sexual Assault and Rape  3. #AzizAnsariToo?: Desi Masculinity in America and Performing Funny Cute  4. Anger's Volumes: Rhetorics of Amplification and Aggregation in #MeToo  5. "Our Bodies Are Not Terra Nullius": Building a Decolonial Feminist Resistance to Gendered Violence  6. Isolating Structures of Sexual Harassment in Crowdsourced Data on Higher Education 

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

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