#MeToo and Literary Studies - Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture (Paperback)

Literature has always recorded a history of patriarchy, sexual violence, and resistance. Academics have been using literature to expose and critique this violence and domination for half a century. But the continued potency of #MeToo after its 2017 explosion adds new urgency and wider awareness about these issues, while revealing new ways in which rape culture shapes our everyday lives. This intersectional guide helps readers, students, teachers, and scholars face and challenge our culture of sexual violence by confronting it through the study of literature. #MeToo and Literary Studies gathers essays on literature from Ovid to Carmen Maria Machado, by academics working across the United States and around the world, who offer clear ways of using our reading, teaching, and critical practices to address rape culture and sexual violence. It also examines the promise and limitations of the #MeToo movement itself, speaking to the productive use of social media as well as to the voices that the movement has so far muted. In uniting diverse voices to enable the #MeToo movement to reshape literary studies, this book is also committed to the idea that the way we read and write about literature can make real change in the world.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2021
Editors:	Mary K. Holland (Professor of English) • Heather Hewett (Associate Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies)
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	432
ISBN-13:	978-1-5013-7273-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	1-5013-7273-4
Barcode:	9781501372735

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