ISBN:
9781526157638
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (372 pages)
Series Statement:
Governing Intimacies in the Global South Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.420954
Keywords:
Intimate partner violence-India
;
MeToo movement
;
Women-India-Social conditions
;
Women-Social conditions
;
Women-South Africa-Social conditions
;
Women-Violence against-India
;
Women-Violence against-South Africa
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intimacy and injury offers an original perspective on the #MeToo movement from South Africa and India. It overturns the dominance of western debates on #MeToo by foregrounding diverse southern feminist takes on the possibilities and limits of this movement in the global south.
Abstract:
Front Matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: intimacy, injury and #MeToo in India and South Africa -- Part I Pre-histories -- South Africa's own 'Delhi moment': news coverage of the murders of Jyoti Singh and Anene Booysen -- Hokkolorob, campus politics and the pre-histories of #MeToo -- Reading in-between the sheets: in conversation about SWEAT's #SayHerName -- Reflection: 'When will the state be #MeToo'd?' -- Part II #MeToo's silences -- Moments of erasure of the testimonies of sexual violence against Dalit women -- #MeToo and the troubling of the rural public sphere in India: a feminist media house reports from the hinterland -- Contesting the meaning/s of sexual violence in the South African postcolony: where are the male victims? -- Rebuilding precarious solidarities: a feminist debate in internet time -- Reflection: progressive men and predatory practices -- Part III Institutional locations: the university and the state -- #EndRapeCulture and #MeToo: of intersectionality, rage and injury -- From harassment to transgression: understanding changes in the legal landscape of sexual harassment in India -- Feminism and Fallism in institutions: in conversation with Jackie Dugard -- Reflection: beyond the media storm - on sexual harassment in the news and the newsrooms -- Part IV Affect and aesthetics -- Fury, pain, resentment … and fierceness: configurations of con/destructive affective activism in women's organising -- Queer feminism and India's #MeToo -- Fugitive aesthetics: performing refusal in four acts -- Reflection: 'Gay boys don't cry when we're raped' - queer shame and secrecy -- Index.
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