Routledge Handbook of the Politics of the #MeToo Movement

<p>Since the MeToo hashtag went viral in 2017 the movement has burgeoned across social media moving beyond Twitter and into living rooms and courtrooms. It has spread unevenly across the globe with some countries and societies more impacted than others and interacted with existing feminist movements struggles and resistances.</p><p>This interdisciplinary handbook identifies thematic and theoretical areas that require attention and interrogation inviting the reader to make connections between the ways in which the #MeToo movement has panned out in different parts of the world seeing it in the context of the many feminist and gendered struggles already in place as well as the solidarities with similar movements across countries and cultures.</p><p>With contributions from gender experts spanning a wide range of disciplines including political science history sociology law literature and philosophy this groundbreaking book will have contemporary relevance for scholars feminists gender researchers and policy-makers across the globe.</p>