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From Asia to Africa to the Middle East, #MeToo has inspired local movements and hashtag trends like #AnaKaman and transnational collective hashtags like #MosqueMeToo. Yet, most Western scholarly and popular treatment of the movement assumes it is a primarily Western phenomenon. To attend to the revolutionary international impact of #MeToo, Iqra Shagufta Cheema brings together contributions from scholars and scholar activists that look at specific iterations of the #MeToo movement across multiple communities, cultures, and countries in the Global South. Going beyond gender, this comprehensive study focuses on the intersectional assemblage of ethnicity, religion, race, class, and politics that informs #MeToo and its place in local and transnational feminisms. By doing so, The Other #MeToos highlights the adaptation, translation, and impact of #MeToo in non-Western, postcolonial, minoritized, and othered locales to explore its wider scope and possibilities.
This book investigates how the #MeToo movement has been adapted, translated, and experienced within non-Western, postcolonial, and minoritized communities across the Global South. Editor Iqra Shagufta Cheema compiles contributions from scholars and activists to challenge the Western-centric narrative that often dominates discussions of the movement. By examining specific iterations of #MeToo in regions such as Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, the text argues that the movement is a complex, intersectional phenomenon shaped by local politics, religion, race, and class. The work provides a framework for understanding how transnational feminist movements are reconfigured when they cross cultural and geopolitical borders.
What You Will Find
Experts identify this collection as a critical intervention in gender studies that successfully decenters Western perspectives on contemporary social movements. Scholars frequently note the academic rigor of the contributors and the text's utility for those studying global feminism and international relations.
Page Count:
352
Publication Date:
2023-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0197619886
ISBN-13:
9780197619889
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