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Examining the evolving reach of the #MeToo MovementIn this timely and important collection, editors Jason D. Spraitz and Kendra N. Bowen bring together the work of contributors in the fields of criminal justice and criminology, sociology, journalism, and communications. These chapters show #MeToo is not only a support network of victims' voices and testimonies but also a revolutionary interrogation of policies, power imbalances, and ethical failures that resulted in decades-long cover-ups and institutions structured to ensure continued abuse. This book reveals #MeToo as so much more than a hashtag.
Contributors discuss how #MeToo has altered the landscape of higher education; detail a political history of sexual abuse in the United States and the UK; discuss a recent grand jury report about religious institutions; and address the foster care and correctional systems. Hollywood instances are noted for their fear of retaliation among victims and continued accolades for alleged abusers. In sports, contributors examine the Jerry Sandusky scandal and the abuse by Larry Nassar. Advertising and journalism are scrutinized for covering the #MeToo disclosures while dealing with their own scandals. Finally, social media platforms are investigated for harassment and threats of violent victimization.
Drawing on the general framework of the #MeToo Movement, contributors look at complex and very different institutions-athletics, academia, religion, politics, justice, childcare, social media, and entertainment. Contributors include revelatory case studies to ensure we hear the victims' voices; bring to light the complicity and negligence of social institutions; and advocate for systemic solutions to institutional sexual abuse, violence, and harassment.
Contents
Introduction: Examining Institutional Sexual Abuse during the #MeToo Era — Jason D. Spraitz & Kendra N. Bowen
Section I. Institutions of Higher Learning
Chapter 1. "All I Wanted was an Education": Sexual Abuse in Higher Education and the Impact of #MeToo — Mia Gilliam & Shelly Clevenger
Chapter 2. Finding the Strength to Speak Out, Waiting to be Heard: #MeToo on College Campuses — Nicole Bedera
Section II. Religious and Political Institutions
Chapter 3. "Pestminister" Politics: Local and International Dimensions of the #MeToo Movement — Amina Zarrugh
Chapter 4. Sexual Abuse in Religious Institutions — Jason D. Spraitz & Kendra N. Bowen
Section III. Custodial Institutions
Chapter 5. #MeToo in the U.S. Foster Care System — ReneÈ Lamphere
Chapter 6. Examining Sexual Violence and Harassment in the U.S. Corrections System through #MeToo — ReneÈ Lamphere & Matthew Hassett
Section IV. Media and Cultural Institutions
Chapter 7. Lights, Camera, Abuse: Exploring #MeToo in Hollywood — Ashley Wellman
Chapter 8. Sexual Abuse in Sport: Hegemonic Masculinity and Institutional Failures — Pamela J. Forman, Anne M. Nurse, & Amelia D. Montie
Chapter 9. Between Subject and Object: How Mass Media Industries Have Enabled Sexual Misconduct and Harassment—and How They Also Exposed Them — Jacqueline Lambiase, Tracy Everbach, & Carolyn Bronstein
Chapter 10: #MeToo and Social Media — Tania G. Levey
Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here? — Kendra N. Bowen & Jason D. Spraitz
About the Contributors
