#MeToo and Beyond

This book brings our attention to gendered power dynamics in public and private spaces of the #MeToo conversations while it stays with the trouble and keep up the polyphonic, complex, and partly arduous conversation about how intimacy and bodies within systems of dominance and hierarchies structure the values of individuals, organizations and institutions, and entire societies.

~Andrea Pető, Professor, CEU, Vienna

This volume provides a much-needed corrective to popular depictions of #MeToo as a movement led by white, wealthy, cisgender, heterosexual celebrity women in the United States and the Global North. The diverse voices that speak clearly from these pages decenter the perspectives and experiences of those with privilege, while simultaneously highlighting commonalities across diverse positionalities.

~Claire M. Renzetti, editor of Violence against Women: An International, Interdisciplinary Journal

#MeToo is a global movement concerning all genders, but in intersectional ways. This great book brings in multiple voices, tensions, and experiences that reflect diverse class, generational, racialized, and gendered positions. It also covers exclusions produced by feminist movements themselves. Disrupting hegemonial knowledges, it provides a polyphony for understanding past, current, and future forms of gendered violence and resistance, and highlights the power of self-reflexive transnational feminism for nonviolent futures.

~Ilse Lenz, author of The New Women's Movement in Germany and Processual Intersectionality

Despite the seemingly unifying hashtag #MeToo, the continuum that runs from sexual harassment to unwanted touching to rape (and everything in between) is among the most complex, multi-valanced feminist movements that have gained prominence in recent decades—and nothing shows this more vividly than this collection of diverse narratives. While the movement is rightfully described as global in scope, the different national and cultural perspectives represented demonstrate just how important history and cultural context are to the differing shapes and priorities #MeToo has taken—as well as the distinctive dilemmas impeding and furthering progress. A very valuable, highly instructive collection.

~Susan Bordo, author and professor emerita of gender studies at the University of Kentucky

The #MeToo campaign on social media grew from a history of feminist activism against gendered violence. This fascinating book explores both the campaign's astonishing global reach and its troubled encounters with class privilege, racial inequalities, sexuality and state power. With case studies from five continents, it is a very rich resource for understanding contemporary gender politics.

~Raewyn Connell, author of Gender: In World Perspective

The editors did a fantastic job... showing #MeToo in multiple countries, contexts, and scenarios. Despite the multiplicity, the book shows the global cohesiveness of the movement and its struggles...(this work) brings a wider perspective to #MeToo outside of the United States and reflecting its global implications.

~H-Net