{"product_id":"metoo-lisa-m-corrigan-9781032018164","title":"#MeToo: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis edited collection on #MeToo activism challenges the overwhelming whiteness and straightness of #MeToo discourse and coverage. Using intersectional and decolonial frameworks and historical, archival, organizational and legal methods, these essays offer a rich exploration of #MeToo to understand how activism around sexualized violence reproduce and harm a wide variety of people. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe swift and powerful arrival of #MeToo as a compilation of complaints about sexual misconduct (especially in the workplace) has created pressure to dive deeper into the history of sexual assault and abuse in the United States. \u003ci\u003e#MeToo: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist\u003c\/i\u003e answers the call for more complicated analyses of systemic sexual harassment and abuse with essays that are deeply concerned with the whiteness and heterosexuality of #MeToo coverage and media framing to understand how and why #MeToo began to capture the public's attention in 2017 against the backdrop of Donald J. Trump's presidential administration. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese essays offer the first comprehensive study of the rhetorical politics of #MeToo. They tackle the complexities of sexual harassment, sexual violence and rape beyond white celebrity discourse to understand: how both violence and #MeToo activism affect transgender people; how #MeToo fails Black male victims of assault and rape; how Indian-American masculinity and comedy skirt sexual accountability; how the legal and affective precedent in the Supreme Court during the Kavanaugh hearings amplified concerns about sexual assault and rape; decolonial approaches to resisting sexualized violence from indigenous peoples; and narratives about assault from within the higher education community. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of \u003ci\u003eWomen's Studies in Communication.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lisa M. Corrigan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 103201816X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032018164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.38d","brand":"Lisa M. Corrigan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43990647963903,"sku":"9781032018164","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_216aca0a-31aa-4de3-a68f-99fcc3846fbb.jpg?v=1683305862","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/metoo-lisa-m-corrigan-9781032018164","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}