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lottie1803's review
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Violence, Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual violence
alexorr's review
challenging
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
3.75
some really strong essays drawing the lines between gender and economic exploitation esp in global south, some essays weren’t v impactful. collections like these are always a mixed bag but there were a few pretty great ones
100onbooks's review
The essays were provoking, moving, and inspiring.
HIGHLY recommended.
HIGHLY recommended.
mariarunkelcardoso's review
5.0
Strangely good. Several accessible articles with innovative perspectives within the scope of MeToo. I recommend it both to those who don't really know their opinion and also to those who criticise the movement (whichever side they take).
postcorporeal's review
3.0
there’s like three or four essays in here i really liked and one i was pretty soured by
the rest were fine
there are eighteen total
3.5 or smth like that i guess
the rest were fine
there are eighteen total
3.5 or smth like that i guess
suzannecl's review
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
This free ebook from Verso compiles a collection of previously published articles and essays, ranging from the historical to the contemporary, which taken together form an interrogation and critique of the #MeToo movement, particularly by marginalized women - non-white, working class, incarcerated, queer etc. It examines the way capitalist economic systems uphold violence against women, and advocates for a move from #MeToo to #WeStrike, following the model of the 2016 Argentinian women’s strike. It forms a thought provoking anthology which asks some pertinent questions & highlights perspectives often overlooked in the #MeToo movement, which thanks to media coverage has tended to focus mainly on wealthy white women with prestigious careers.
viralmysteries's review
5.0
This collection of essays by Verso discuss what to make the #MeToo movement and the long fight against patriarchal violence that a global intersectional feminist movement has to make. I thought it was impactful, even though it was short, but I will say I expected more original pieces for it. Many of the essays were famous viral pieces from the last 3 years that I had already read. Nevertheless, I found it to be informative and engaging. A good primer on how leftists can imagine and contextualize #MeToo in the broader socialist feminist fight against hetero-patriarchal capitalism.
gfox3737's review
4.0
90% of the essays in this collection were great: poignant and moving - educational and inspiring. Recommended for everyone - NOW.
folieassdeux's review
4.0
So firstly, this ebook is free, so you might as well read it. Yes all of these essays can be found online as well, so technically there's nothing new here, but it's all collated for you into a pretty handy ebook so why not.
This is a timely collection of essays that critically interrogates the #MeToo movement, starting with Tarana Burke, the woman who originally started #MeToo, and progressing through a range of different feminist writers, including the opening speech of a forum on sexual harassment in 1981, after laws against sexual harassment were passed. The illuminating and infuriating thing is the realisation that you could almost read the essay with no introduction, and think it was written today.
The series of essays was really interesting, and covered a wider range of topics than I expected, which really helped to contextualise the #MeToo movement in a wider feminist context. Especially in the context of feminist movements that do grassroots work and create real change for latina workers, black women, victims of murder, incarcerated women, and those in domestic and/or undervalued fields of work.
The common arguments through the essays were interrogating the capitalist and celebrity structure of #MeToo, the ways in which an individualistic approach to the issue of sexual harassment will never effect real change like a collective understanding of it will, and the ways we should define sexual harassment altogether. The latter is the biggest point of contention through the essays, which suggestions that through collective understanding we can throw of the capitalist structure of victim hood, or alternatively defining harassment on an individual basis somehow without losing the protection of legal structures.
Issues of incarceration and the faults of legal justice were interesting aspects of the essays too. Ways of seeking justice which don't involve structures of legal justice and resulting mass incarceration was a big theme in [b:False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton|27039056|False Choices The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton|Liza Featherstone|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1462162727s/27039056.jpg|47079739] as well, and is one of the most convincing arguments I've read in both collections because of the well-documented effects on minority groups, particularly black minorities. Also, the analysis of how queer minorities have been affected by punitive justice is well-documented and makes it clear how authoritarian structures are simply bent to the will of the present authority. However, I feel like neither collections really offered a constructive way forward out of mass incarceration and into an era when we can dismantle these structures (besides slow socialist revolution of course).
Overall this is a really good collection of essays that provide a good groundwork on interrogating the #MeToo movement, and providing some ways in which it needs to evolve quickly to effect real change.
This is a timely collection of essays that critically interrogates the #MeToo movement, starting with Tarana Burke, the woman who originally started #MeToo, and progressing through a range of different feminist writers, including the opening speech of a forum on sexual harassment in 1981, after laws against sexual harassment were passed. The illuminating and infuriating thing is the realisation that you could almost read the essay with no introduction, and think it was written today.
The series of essays was really interesting, and covered a wider range of topics than I expected, which really helped to contextualise the #MeToo movement in a wider feminist context. Especially in the context of feminist movements that do grassroots work and create real change for latina workers, black women, victims of murder, incarcerated women, and those in domestic and/or undervalued fields of work.
The common arguments through the essays were interrogating the capitalist and celebrity structure of #MeToo, the ways in which an individualistic approach to the issue of sexual harassment will never effect real change like a collective understanding of it will, and the ways we should define sexual harassment altogether. The latter is the biggest point of contention through the essays, which suggestions that through collective understanding we can throw of the capitalist structure of victim hood, or alternatively defining harassment on an individual basis somehow without losing the protection of legal structures.
Issues of incarceration and the faults of legal justice were interesting aspects of the essays too. Ways of seeking justice which don't involve structures of legal justice and resulting mass incarceration was a big theme in [b:False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton|27039056|False Choices The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton|Liza Featherstone|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1462162727s/27039056.jpg|47079739] as well, and is one of the most convincing arguments I've read in both collections because of the well-documented effects on minority groups, particularly black minorities. Also, the analysis of how queer minorities have been affected by punitive justice is well-documented and makes it clear how authoritarian structures are simply bent to the will of the present authority. However, I feel like neither collections really offered a constructive way forward out of mass incarceration and into an era when we can dismantle these structures (besides slow socialist revolution of course).
Overall this is a really good collection of essays that provide a good groundwork on interrogating the #MeToo movement, and providing some ways in which it needs to evolve quickly to effect real change.