The #MeToo Effect Audiobook Libro.fm

The MeToo movement inspired millions to testify to the widespread experience of sexual violence More broadly it shifted the deeply ingrained response to womens accounts of sexual violence from doubting all of them to believing some of them What changed

Leigh Gilmore provides a new account of MeToo that reveals how storytelling by survivors propelled the call for sexual justice beyond courts and highprofile cases At a time when the cultural conversation was fixated on appeals to legal and bureaucratic systems narrative activismstorytelling in the service of social changeelevated survivors as authorities Their testimony fused credibility and accountability into the MeToo effect uniting millions of separate accounts into an existential demand for justice and the right to be heard

Gilmore reframes MeToo as a breakthrough moment within a longer history of feminist thought and activism She analyzes autobiographical storytelling in intersectional and antirape activism and traces how literary representations of sexual violence dating from antiquity intertwine with cultural notions of doubt obligation and agency By focusing on the intersectional prehistory of MeToo Gilmore sheds light on how survivors have used narrative to frame sexual violence as an urgent problem requiring structural solutions in diverse contexts