#MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture
Edited by Mary Holland and Heather Hewett (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)
Groundbreaking … an urgent, transformative, and mandatory read.
–Salamishah Tillet
author of In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of An American Masterpiece
A breathtaking feat, and a highly necessary volume, for any feminist thinker.
–Kate Manne
author of Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
Scholarly activism at its best.
–Carine Mardorossian
author of Framing the Rape Victim: Gender and Agency Reconsidered
Featuring essays on literature from Ovid to Carmen Maria Machado, this intersectional guide brings together academics 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, #MeToo and Literary Studies is committed to the idea that the way we read and write about literature can make real change in the world.