#MeToo for Women and Men provides an overview of sexual violence and an accessible guide to the #MeToo movement, presenting a timely look at the evidence from diverse fields. Its evidence-based approach builds upon public health and health psychology principles to increase the reader’s understanding of sexual bullying and aims to help inform the building of safer communities.
The book identifies patterns of sexual harassment and considers how sexual bullying can be used to express power. Intended to widen readers' knowledge of the causes and impacts surrounding sexual harassment and abuse, the book encourages open discussion of these topics to enable society to move closer to combating it. Using first-person accounts alongside evidence of both individual behaviours and the ways the topic is dealt with in laws, institutions, cultures and organisations, the book ensures that voices of survivors and their experiences are emphasised throughout.
A wide audience of public, professional, academics and clinicians will benefit from the book’s extensive look into the impact sexual harassment has on survivors and its insight into how connections across a range of fields help us to understand, but more importantly, prevent perpetration and victimisation. This guide is also for non-academics wanting to understand what #MeToo means, what it tells us about prevention and how to address the increasing problem of sexual harassment, violence and abuse.
Author(s): Jane Meyrick
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 137
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
About the author
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Foreword
Foreword
Introduction
1 #MeToo is everywhere – scale
What does sexual harassment/bullying look like?
What does sexual harassment/bullying feel like?
What shall we call it?
2 Hotspots – scope
Getting from A to B
Part of a night out
Online
Bystander apathy
Toxic environments
Where we work
Where we study
Power in short supply – place and poverty
3 Who does it happen to?
Women
The young
Vulnerable groups
Race and intersectionality
Non-conforming groups – who you should be
Men as survivors
4 What is the harm?
Harm, a public health perspective
Cumulative effect
Impact – erase yourself
What does recovery look like?
5 What is it for?
Routes to acts of perpetration
Making men
6 Enablers
Invisibility
Silencing voices of blame and shame
Rape myths
Porn Prosecco
Legal immunity
Boys will be boys
Strange lines in the nature of consent
The maps we use
7 Hope – prevention
Model it – diversity
Protect your Daughters Educate your sons
Holding resistance
Teach it – tackle the culture and make the connections
Mark the boundaries across structures
Count it – to make it count
Make telling easier
Change how you show it
Use the right maps – language and framing
Conclusions
References
Index