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#MeToo Movement in Iran, The: Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment
The #MeToo movement started in 2017 in the United States. Ten years later, it took off on social media leading to a global campaign. The Iranian #MeToo movement was a crucial form of resistance, with ordinary Iranian women sharing their experiences of sexual harassment and assault in the public sphere of cyberspace. Yet despite its significance, there is no major work dedicated to #MeToo in Iran.
This is the first book of its kind providing a comprehensive analysis of the Iranian #MeToo movement. Based on archival, empirical, ethnographic, literary and cultural research, the contributors discuss the abuse of women report and women and society's responses to it. Part one examines the specific nature of the Iranian #MeToo movement and how it has shifted concepts such as sexual harassment, sexual violence, and consent. Part two focuses on the intersection of power and privilege in silencing the voices of the survivors of sexual harassment in Iran, particularly focusing on male power. Part three covers the intersections of various systems of oppression specifically highlighting marginalized voices according to sexuality and class. Finally, part fourexamines how cinematic and literary works have normalized and even romanticized sexual harassment and how this is being challenged.
At a time when the political context of Iran makes reporting accounts of rape, harassment and sexual abuse almost impossible, the analysis found in this book is vital and unique.
This is the first book of its kind providing a comprehensive analysis of the Iranian #MeToo movement. Based on archival, empirical, ethnographic, literary and cultural research, the contributors discuss the abuse of women report and women and society's responses to it. Part one examines the specific nature of the Iranian #MeToo movement and how it has shifted concepts such as sexual harassment, sexual violence, and consent. Part two focuses on the intersection of power and privilege in silencing the voices of the survivors of sexual harassment in Iran, particularly focusing on male power. Part three covers the intersections of various systems of oppression specifically highlighting marginalized voices according to sexuality and class. Finally, part fourexamines how cinematic and literary works have normalized and even romanticized sexual harassment and how this is being challenged.
At a time when the political context of Iran makes reporting accounts of rape, harassment and sexual abuse almost impossible, the analysis found in this book is vital and unique.
- GenresAnthropology
318 pages, Hardcover
Published September 21, 2023
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Dr. Claudia Yaghoobi is a Roshan Institute Professor in Persian Studies and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. She has written and lectured widely on social and political issues in Iran, particularly the challenges facing women in a patriarchal and theocratic society.
What makes Iran's #MeToo movement remarkable is the reluctance of many victims of sexual violence to speak up, given that reporting on their experiences may subject them to additional violence in the guise of "family honor."
Contributors to this edited volume contextualize the Iranian #MeToo activism within the long tradition of Iran's feminist movements and within the Middle East historical background in 9 chapters that are sandwiched between an introduction by the author and an afterword by Roger Friedland, Janet Afari, and Charlotte Hoppen.
Narratives of survival of sexual violence are often delegitimized due to the cultural structure that gives men exposed as rapists the power to dismiss their accusers as crazy or delusional, particularly given that the victims have not traditionally enjoyed much family or societal support. The problems faced by the survivors are multiplied when they belong to sexually or socially marginalized groups.
You can find the book's table of contents on the Bloomsbury Web site:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/metoo-m...
What makes Iran's #MeToo movement remarkable is the reluctance of many victims of sexual violence to speak up, given that reporting on their experiences may subject them to additional violence in the guise of "family honor."
Contributors to this edited volume contextualize the Iranian #MeToo activism within the long tradition of Iran's feminist movements and within the Middle East historical background in 9 chapters that are sandwiched between an introduction by the author and an afterword by Roger Friedland, Janet Afari, and Charlotte Hoppen.
Narratives of survival of sexual violence are often delegitimized due to the cultural structure that gives men exposed as rapists the power to dismiss their accusers as crazy or delusional, particularly given that the victims have not traditionally enjoyed much family or societal support. The problems faced by the survivors are multiplied when they belong to sexually or socially marginalized groups.
You can find the book's table of contents on the Bloomsbury Web site:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/metoo-m...
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