INTIMACY AND INJURY, in the wake of the #MeToo in India and South Africa
353pp., paperback, Manchester, 2022
Contributions include:
"South Africa's own 'Delhi moment': news coverage of the murders of Jyoti Singh and Anene Booysen" by Nechama Brodie
"Contesting the meaning/s of sexual violence in the South African postcolony: where are the male victims?" by Louise du Toit
"#EndRapeCulture and #MeToo: of intersectionality, rage and injury" by Amanda Gouws
"Feminism and Fallism in institutions: in conversation with Jackie Dugard" by Zuziwe Khuzwayo and Ragi Bashonga
"This brilliant collection brings together incisive and critical accounts of feminist organising, written by, for and from scholars of colour from India and South Africa. By refuting the claim that #MeToo has travelled to the Global South, the book suggests the need for a radical re-imagining of the raced, classed gender politics of sexual violence at scalar level and offers a different perspective 'from the margins'." Sweta Rajan-Rankin, The Sociological Review
"The call for collaborative work across disciplines, modalities and other spaces of knowledge unrecognised by the academy is clearly a priority for decolonial, feminist and queer scholarship. The book models this admirably, it is threaded through with art, images and poetry, both in the chapters and in the reflective pieces that so poignantly draw the sections together. This is indeed a strength of this book which also presents us with a rich account of #MeToo and other feminist activisms within these two global Southern contexts, offering an important contribution to the larger scholarship around #MeToo" Tamara Shefer, Feminist Encounters (6(2), 34)
Nicky Falkof is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Shilpa Phadke is Professor at the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
Srila Roy is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand.