Leigh Gilmore

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The #MeToo Effect

What Happens When We Believe Women

Beschreibung

Leigh Gilmore provides a new account of MeToo that reveals how storytelling by survivors propelled the call for sexual justice beyond courts and high-profile cases. She reframes MeToo as a breakthrough moment within a longer history of feminist thought and activism.

Autor

Leigh Gilmore is professor emerita of English at the Ohio State University. She is the author of Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives (Columbia, 2017), The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony (second edition, 2023), and Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Women's Self-Representation (1994), as well as coauthor of Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing (2019). She contributes regularly to WBUR's Cognoscenti.

Produktdetails

• Gender and Culture Series
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780231216579
• ISBN-10: 0231216572
• Artikelnr.: 70141945