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The #MeToo Movement in Iran : Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment, Hardback Book

The #MeToo Movement in Iran : Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment Hardback

Edited by Claudia Yaghoobi

Part of the Sex, Family and Culture in the Middle East series

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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 digital media.

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 and society’s responses to it.

Contextualizing the historical framework of Iranian MeToo activism within larger Iranian feminist movements, as well as the historical background within the context of Middle East, the contributors address how the privileged position of men who have been outed as rapists, helps them to aggregate social, political, sexual, and economic capital through various networks in order to delegitimize the narratives of survivors.

The volume also covers the intersections of various systems of oppression specifically highlighting marginalized voices.

The contributors highlight the power dynamics within digital feminist networks in Iran and its unique attributes due to political, social, and religious structures.

The volume ends with a chapter focusing on cultural productions, specifically cinematic works, through which some filmmakers have challenged normalizations ofsexual harassment by offering alternative discourses which have arguably paved the way for the #MeToo in Iran movement.

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