Author: Sabine Sielke, North American Studies Program, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (University of Bonn)

Abstract: »Ongoing for centuries, the serial debate of sexual harassment and sexual violence highlights how ubiquitous sexual violence remains and how persistently it keeps shaping the power dynamic of human relations and social hierarchies. This controversy also demonstrates, though, how feminist concerns mutate along with transforming social and cultural economies and media ecologies. The recent rape and revenge movie, Emerald Fennell’s outstanding provocative Promising Young Woman (USA/UK 2020), makes all of this blatantly evident. My three-part argument presents the shifts and erasures of feminist critique as part of a revenge, practiced not by those subjected to sexual harassment and violence, but, as Fennell’s film insistently highlights, by cultures that protect and care about perpetrators more than about injured parties. Her provokingly illuminating narrative ushers in justice, for a brief, fleeting, and soon disremembered moment in time, inviting feminism to repeat its critique, all over again.« (Source: Article)

Contents:

	Abstract (p. 211)
	Part One: Situating #MeToo, or: The Seriality of Feminist Critique and Its Concepts (p. 213)
	Part Two. Remembering a Serial Debate, or: What (1990s) Feminism Talked About When It Talked About Sexual Violence (p. 219)
	Part Three: Making It New? Mapping the Media Ecology and Politics of the #MeToo Movement (p. 221)
	Part Four: Weighing the Impact of #MeToo, Remembering Feminism Forward (p. 224)
	Bibliography (p. 228)
	Filmography (p. 231)

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