The #MeToo Effect : : What Happens When We Believe Women / / Leigh Gilmore.

The #MeToo movement inspired millions to testify to the widespread experience of sexual violence. More broadly, it shifted the deeply ingrained response to women’s accounts of sexual violence from doubting all of them to believing some of them. What changed?Leigh Gilmore provides a new account of #M...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Gender and Culture Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION The #MeToo Effect
  • I NARRATIVE ACTIVISM AND SURVIVOR TESTIMONY
  • 1 THE #METOO EFFECT From He Said/She Said to Collective Witness
  • 2 BUILDUP Survivors in Public, Trump, and the Women’s March
  • 3 BREAKTHROUGH #MeToo Silence Breakers
  • 4 BACKDROP Antirape Lineage from Harriet Jacobs to Tarana Burke
  • 5 #METOO STRESS TEST The Kavanaugh Hearings
  • II NARRATIVE JUSTICE AND SURVIVOR READING
  • 6 READING LIKE A SURVIVOR
  • 7 #METOO STORYTELLING
  • 8 CONSENT BEFORE AND AFTER #METOO
  • CONCLUSION Promising Young Women— What We Owe Survivors
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX