MeToo

How Rape Culture in the Media Impacts Us All

MeToo
Meenakshi Gigi Durham
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h216 x 138mm - 160pg
29 Apr 2021 UK
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9781509535200
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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.
"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 NottinghamPRAISE FOR THE LOLITA EFFECT"A powerful tool for those wanting to challenge the objectification of the vulnerable among us. "Christianity Today
Meenakshi Gigi Durham is Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa.
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ISBN-13: 9781509535200
Published: 29 Apr 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Polity Press
Publisher: Polity Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 160

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