
MeToo
How Rape Culture in the Media Impacts Us All
Meenakshi Gigi Durham(Author)
Polity Press
1st Edition
Published on 29. April 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-5095-3520-0 (ISBN)
Description
In the wake of the MeToo movement, revelations of sexual assault and harassment continue to disrupt sexual politics across the globe. Reports of recurrent and widespread misconduct - in workplaces from doctors' offices to factory floors - are precipitating firings, legal actions, street protests, and policy punditry.
Meenakshi Gigi Durham situates media culture as a place in which these broader social struggles are enacted and reproduced. The media figures whose depravity sparked the #MeToo movement are symbolic markers of the complexities of sexual desire and consent. Pop culture sparks controversies about rape culture; social media users have launched feminist resistance that turned to real-world activism; investigative journalists have broken stories of assault, offering a platform for survivors to speak truth to patriarchal power. Arguing that the media are a linchpin in these events, Durham provides a feminist account of the interrelated contexts of media production, representation, and reception. She situates media as the key site where the establishment of sexuality and social relations takes place, and traces the media's powerful role in both reifying and challenging rape culture.
This timely and stimulating book will be of interest to students and scholars of media, communication, gender studies, and sociology, as well as anyone concerned by the current state of sexual politics.
Reviews / Votes
"An accessible and thorough interrogation of the media, rape culture, and MeToo. The book does a fantastic job of detailing rape culture (as it is conceived by many feminist theorists and activists) as well as outlining, in a really impressive way, the complexity of the MeToo movement."Catherine Rottenberg, University of Nottingham
PRAISE FOR THE LOLITA EFFECT
"A powerful tool for those wanting to challenge the objectification of the vulnerable among us."
Christianity Today
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
282 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5095-3520-0 (9781509535200)
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Person
Meenakshi Gigi Durham is Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa.
Content
Table of contents:Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Rapacity
Monsters, Inc.
Danger Zones
Of Presidents And Pussy-Grabs
Chapter 2: Representation
E-race-ures
The Naked And The Damned
Reporting And Rape Culture
Chapter 3: Resistance
Reckonings
Redress
Coda: Reformulating Desire And Consent
Notes
References
Index