Vol. 12 No. 3 (2024)
Journal Space and Culture, India

Special Articles

#Metoo Movement: Backlash or Rhetoric

Published 2024-11-29

  • Rituparna Bhattacharyya

Rituparna Bhattacharyya
Adjunct Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam, India; Visiting Professor, University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya, India; Research Consultant & Editor-in-Chief (Joint), Space and Culture, India, United Kingdom; Senior Fellow, Advance HE, United Kingdom; Series Editor: Gender and Violence, Routledge, Taylor &Francis, United Kingdom

Abstract

Any form of sexual assault stems from the intersection of power, patriarchal structure and gender. While different countries take different measures to tackle cases of sexual assault, cases continue to rise like a pandemic. This study is a revisit to the # Metoo Movement that took the catbird seat in 2017 after Tarana Burke founded it in 2006. Although the #Metoo movement started with women calling out names of abusers, the movement was not confined to female voices alone. It helped expose the cases of sexual abuse across all genders. Taking examples of various instances of sexual assaults against gender across societies, committed under the bulwarks of power, domination and (or) patriarchy, and the newly emergent ways of exploitation of gender, such as Catfishing and Love Jihad, this communication aims to probe whether the #Metoo movement has faced backlash or is simply a rhetoric or both.

Keywords

#Metoo Movement, Gender, Gender Justice Movement, Power, Patriarchal Structure, Sexual Assault

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