Awakening
#MeToo and the Global Fight for Women's Rights
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Publisher Description
Foreword by Tarana Burke. Awakening chronicles the remarkable global impact of the #MeToo movement.
Since 2017, millions have joined the global movement known as #MeToo, catalyzing an unprecedented wave of women’s activism powered by technology that reaches across borders, races, religions, and economic divides. Today, women in more than 100 countries are using the hashtag to fight the violence and discrimination they face—and winning. What started as an online campaign against sexual harassment has triggered the most widespread cultural reckoning on women’s rights in history, with global implications for women’s participation in the economy, politics, and across social and cultural life.
Awakening is the first book to capture the global impact of this breakthrough movement. Bringing together political analysis and inspiring personal stories from women in seven countries—Brazil, China, Egypt, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sweden, and Tunisia—Awakening takes readers to the front lines of a networked movement that’s fundamentally shifting how women organize for their own equality.
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Vogelstein and Stone, senior fellows at the Council on Foreign Relations' Women and Foreign Policy program, debut with an eye-opening global tour of women's activism in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Spotlighting activists in seven countries, the authors make clear the diversity of the movement, discussing, among other topics, the push for increased political representation by women in Brazil; performance art campaigns by young Chinese women, who use blockchain technology to preserve online posts in the face of government crackdowns; and the recognition by Swedish feminists that their international reputation for gender equality hid terrible behavior by powerful men. The authors also describe the central role of social media in building solidarity and providing a safer space for individuals to speak out, and show that physical protest is also still critical, especially as activists seek to include women in poorer or more rural communities. Vogelstein and Stone push for Western foreign aid groups and feminist organizations to "decolonize" their programs and let local women lead, and outline how the movement can progress by focusing on the "Five Rs": redress, reform, representation, resources, and recalibration. Readers will be galvanized by these detailed portraits of bravery, creativity, and persistence in the struggle for women's rights.
