Reckoning with the Silences of #MeToo

Tambe, Ashwini

doi:10.4324/9781003001201-13

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“…Tambe (2018) questions the sudden urgency of the #MeToo movement, following the 2017 Alyssa Milano tweet, when feminists and women of color, specifically Black women, have championed movements such as Take Back the Night and Me Too since the 1980s and early 2000s. Tambe (2018) and Onwuachi‐Willig's (2018) analyses both call for intersectionality in understanding the complexities of the Me Too movement in communities of color, which echoes the message that women academics of color have been advocating for in feminist movements since the 1980s (Crenshaw, 1989). A few tweets from the mtUni and mtBus samples indicate skepticism of the Me Too movement in Black communities, displaying the fear of overreporting and misreporting of Black men and distrust due to lack of justice for Black women.…”

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“…The Me Too hashtag allows individuals to join a supportive collective to cope when talking about harassment and abuse, and to shift the ways that society views sexual violence as a whole. The movement “has tilted public sympathy in favor of survivors by changing the default response to belief, rather than suspicion; the hashtag has revealed how widespread sexual coercion is,” (Tambe, 2018, p. 198). The #MeToo movement has created a space for nuance and added context to society's understanding of the dynamics of sexual violence and its impact on survivors.…”

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#MeToo, #MeThree, #MeFour: Twitter as community building across academic and corporate institutions

Kachen

Krishen

Petrescu

et al. 2020

Psychology and Marketing

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This netnography‐based inquiry of the #MeToo movement on Twitter recognizes the relationships between organizations and individuals in varying levels of power and how social media can mitigate power dynamics in reporting systems for sexual harassment and assault. We study both academia and corporations as cultural institutions within which sexual harassment survivors are historically disenfranchised and convinced not to voice their stories. Distinct elements of these structures create differences in how vulnerable individuals face persecution. This paper explores the relationships between university and corporate contexts within the ecological framework of harassment. Our multidisciplinary study contributes to existing literature by extracting two samples of tweets (n = 1248 university and n = 1290 corporate) with three different unguided analytic tools to explore their semantic meaning, valence and emotionality, and overall sentiment. Drawing from our findings and literature review, we discuss the history of #MeToo as an amplification tool; Twitter as a social movement mechanism; and the roles of power, retaliation, and risk across institutions in relation to survivors of sexual violence and harassment.

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#MeToo, #MeThree, #MeFour: Twitter as community building across academic and corporate institutions

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Krishen

Petrescu

et al. 2020

Psychology and Marketing

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“…Although feminists have promoted public demonstrations and speak-outs demanding justice for victims of sexual violence, the fervid force of #MeToo in mid-October 2017 took most people by surprise (Tambe 2018). Within 24 hours, it had been retweeted half a million times.…”

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Rising Waves of Feminism or Faltering Steps of Criminal Justice – What Plagues India?

Dube

Chakraborty

2020

Int. ann. criminol.

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In the recent past, the #MeToo movement has shaken India. A docket of high-flying names, from politicians to celebrities and journalists, have come under scrutiny for alleged sexual abuse of women. Flagged by a Bollywood actress, the #MeToo campaign in India ignited feminists, academicians, and policymakers to re-examine women’s continued abuse in all sections of society. Despite a stringent legal regime enforced after the Nirbhaya tragedy, the abuse of women continues unabated. Feminists opine that violence against women remains an ongoing concern that is heightened in the face of a waning criminal justice system that fails to address their plight. Lack of confidence in the system discourages women from approaching the authorities, something palpable in #MeToo allegations, where women preferred to remain silent in the face of inevitable backlash from society, lack of support and cooperation from police and prosecution and finally, courts, where the victim is positioned as the accused to respond to questions of how and why? This article examines the #MeToo movement against the rising crime graph’s backdrop and the criminal justice system’s consequent failure to respond to the same.

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“…Gender harassment is an outgrowth of gender inequality in the workplace (Fuhrmans 2018) and occurs more frequently in male‐dominated institutions where men outnumber women (Schneider, Pryor, and Fitzgerald 2011; Willness, Steel, and Lee 2007), especially in senior leadership positions (Fuhrmans 2018), and where there are male‐dominated cultures and practices (Johnson, Widnall, and Benya 2018). Indeed, these male‐dominated cultures and practices are at the heart of the #MeToo movement (Tambe 2018). Edwards, Holmes, and Sowa (2019) point to gender bias and organizational and cultural norms as key drivers of gender disparity in the academy.…”

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The Slippery Slope: Struggling for Equity in the Academy in the Era of #MeToo

Knepper

Scutelnicu

Tekula

2020

Public Administration Review

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The complexity of the sexual harassment language of the #MeToo movement creates discontinuities that may muddy intended communications. Yet understanding this language provides a fuller picture of the experiences that women face. Gender harassment has persisted in the workplace despite long-standing antidiscrimination policies, perhaps because of a universal failure to recognize all forms of it-some of which are more pervasive and common than sexual abuse. This article considers the ability of the academy to affect sexual harassment in public administration. It discusses the implications of gender harassment, the least recognized form of sexual harassment, and makes recommendations for overcoming gender barriers in the academy and in practice. Evidence-based guidance for advancing women in the academy may create more equitable and just spaces for teaching and learning. Public administration classrooms and scholarship represent critical opportunities to recognize patterns of organizational practice and systematically redress gender harassment in the workplace.

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Reckoning with the Silences of #MeToo

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#MeToo, #MeThree, #MeFour: Twitter as community building across academic and corporate institutions

#MeToo, #MeThree, #MeFour: Twitter as community building across academic and corporate institutions

Rising Waves of Feminism or Faltering Steps of Criminal Justice – What Plagues India?

The Slippery Slope: Struggling for Equity in the Academy in the Era of #MeToo

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