Book review: Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

Korkodeilou, Jenny

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“…The #MeToo movement focused social attention on the chronic and complex issue of sexual misconduct in the workplace and enhanced collective reflection on the relationship between the abuse of power and accountability and the corresponding challenges embedded in organisations and workplace environments. The movement took place in a wider social context in which the mobilisation of traditional media together with social media and technology platforms facilitated discussion and empowered the collective voices demanding accountability (Kantor and Twohey, 2019;Regulska, 2018;Xiong et al, 2019).…”

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“…The movement received a new impetus in 2017 when the accusations of sexual assault against the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein provoked a massive reaction on social media in the form of individuals using the hashtag #MeToo to share their experiences of sexual harassment. The movement then synergised its efforts with the newly emerged Time's Up initiative to raise funds to assist survivors with legal counsel (Kantor and Twohey, 2019;Regulska, 2018).…”

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The #MeToo legacy and “the Collective Us”: conceptualising accountability for sexual misconduct at work

Goncharenko

2022

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PurposeThis study aims to analyse how the collective processing of the #MeToo legacy in the form of community discourses and activism conceptualises organisational accountability for sexual misconduct at work and enhances the development of new accountability instruments.Design/methodology/approachThe study draws on social movement theory and the intellectual problematics of accountability, together with the empirical insights from two research engagement projects established and facilitated by the author.FindingsThe study reveals multiple dimensions of how post-#MeToo community activism impacted the conceptualisation of organisational accountability for sexual misconduct at work. The movement enhanced discourses prompting a new societal sense of accountability for sexual wrongdoings. This in turn facilitated public demands for accountability that pressured organisations to respond. The accountability crisis created an opportunity for community activists to influence understanding of organisational accountability for sexual misconduct at work and to propose new accountability instruments advancing harassment reporting technology, as well as an enhancing the behavioural consciousness and self-assessment of individuals.Originality/valueThe study addresses a topic of social importance in analysing how community activism arising from a social movement has transformed accountability demands and thus both advanced the conceptualisation of organisational accountability for sexual misconduct at work and established socially desirable practices for it. The study contributes to theory by revealing the emancipatory potential of community activism to influence organisational accountability practices and to propose new instruments at a moment of organisational hesitation and crisis of accountability.

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The #MeToo legacy and “the Collective Us”: conceptualising accountability for sexual misconduct at work

Goncharenko

2022

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“…And the depression, bulimia, self‐harm and suicide attempts that followed.” (Hannon, 2021). As with whistleblowers more generally, most if not all of the women had attempted to disclose internally within their organization first, only going outside after repeated attempts were thwarted (Kantor & Twohey, 2019; Vandekerckhove & Phillips, 2017). The Women of Honour met on Zoom and used WhatsApp groups to share these experiences, to support each other and to discuss their strategy to lobby for change.…”

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Feminist social movements and whistleblowing disclosures: Ireland's Women of Honour

Kenny

2023

Gender Work & Organization

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Feminist social movements based on workers disclosing sexual harassment and sexual violence have had a dramatic impact on workplaces worldwide. But what are the specific dynamics shaping organizations founded on acts of disclosure? Organizational whistleblowing research has overlooked this topic, while literature on feminist social movements has not, to date, focused on whistleblowing disclosure as a shared experience prompting collective action. In this article I address these lacunae. I isolate disclosure‐based feminist movements (DFMs) as a specific, and important, organizational form, and I draw on relevant insights from whistleblowing theory to shed light on the dynamics therein. I find that first, DFMs are founded on a distinct kind of whistleblowing where members speak out about personally‐experienced embodied violence. Second, movements are galvanized through affective connections formed through the sharing of such experiences, and third, the perceived credibility of individual disclosures are uniquely enhanced through the salience emerging from collective speaking. Extant whistleblowing theory—and literature on feminist social movements—fails to account for organizations based upon embodied and collective experiences of disclosure. In this article a novel theoretical framing based on feminist theory is developed, emphasizing embodied, affective forms of parrhesia involving collective salience that counters whistleblower reprisal. Ideas are illustrated throughout with insights from an exemplar case within the worldwide military #MeToo movement: Ireland's Women of Honour. Contributions for scholarship on feminist social movements and organizational whistleblowing conclude the article alongside insights for practice.

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“…Information about the prevalence and harms of sexual assault is widely available, found in empirical research reports (e.g., Fedina et al, 2018), government agency fact sheets (e.g., Centers for Disease Control, 2022), social media advocacy campaigns (e.g., The Do Better Campaign, 2022), mainstream news coverage (e.g., Kantor & Twohey, 2019), and even campus orientations (Koch & Christopher, 2015) and workplace trainings (Tippett, 2018). Although different sampling techniques and questionnaire language yield variation in statistics (Anderson & Cuccolo, 2022;Muehlenhard et al, 2017), the overall state of the field is quite clear: this is not an uncommon experience for women, nor for transgender and non-binary individuals, nor for men (albeit with less reported frequency than non-men; Dworkin et al, 2021).…”

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Men's Hostile Sexism Predicts Skepticism of Sexual Assault Science

Betz,

Deegan,

Gomes

2023

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Sexual assault statistics are both widely disseminated and routinely challenged. Two studies investigated reactions to sexual assault research through the lens of ideologically motivated science denial. In particular, hostile sexism was expected to positively predict skepticism of sexual assault research. In Study 1, adult men in the United States ( N = 316) reported their hostile sexism, then read one of three research summaries and reported their skepticism of the findings. Although there was no difference in skepticism across conditions, hostile sexism was a stronger predictor of skepticism regarding sexual assault research than of skepticism regarding breast cancer or alcohol abuse research. In Study 2 ( N = 254), a standard self-affirmation manipulation failed to alter the hostile sexism-skepticism relation. Given that people deny science when it contradicts their ideology, it was posited that the research substantiating sexual assault had clashed with hostilely sexist views of women. Strategies beyond standard self-affirmation interventions, such as scientific literacy psychoeducation, may thus be needed to effectively communicate sexual assault-relevant science to hostile audiences.

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Book review: Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

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The #MeToo legacy and “the Collective Us”: conceptualising accountability for sexual misconduct at work

The #MeToo legacy and “the Collective Us”: conceptualising accountability for sexual misconduct at work

Feminist social movements and whistleblowing disclosures: Ireland's Women of Honour

Men's Hostile Sexism Predicts Skepticism of Sexual Assault Science

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