MeToo – The Impact of Rape Culture in the Media Durham Hardback Polity Press

MeTooThe Impact of Rape Culture in the Media\nAuthor(s): Meenakshi Gigi Durham\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509535194, 978-1509535194\nSynopsis\nIn the wake of the MeToo movement, revelations of sexual assault and harassment continue to disrupt sexual politics across the globe. Reports of widespread misconductin workplaces from doctors offices to factory floorsprecipitate firings, legal actions, street protests, and policy punditry. Meenakshi Gigi Durham situates media culture as a place in which these broader social struggles are produced and reproduced. The media figures whose depravity sparked the #MeToo movement are symbols of the complexities of sexual desire and consent. Pop culture fuels controversies about rape culture; social media users have launched feminist resistance that turned to real-world activism; and investigative journalists have broken stories of assault, offering a platform for surviv?