Intimacy and injury

In the wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa

Nicky Falkof, Srila Roy, Shilpa Phadke, Nicky Falkof, Srila Roy, Shilpa Phadke

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781526157638
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Both India and South Africa have shared the infamy of being labelled the world's 'rape capitals', with high levels of everyday gender-based and sexual violence. At the same time, both boast long histories of resisting such violence and its location in wider cultures of patriarchy, settler colonialism and class and caste privilege.Through the lens of the #MeToo moment, the book tracks histories of feminist organising in both countries, while also revealing how newer strategies extended or limited these struggles. Intimacy and injury is a timely mapping of a shifting political field around gender-based violence in the global south. In proposing comparative, interdisciplinary, ethnographically rich and analytically astute reflections on #MeToo, it provides new and potentially transformative directions to scholarly debates this book builds transnational feminist knowledge and solidarity in and across the global south.

Table of contents

• Front Matter
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: intimacy, injury and #MeToo in India and South Africa
• Part I Pre-histories
• Part II #MeToo’s silences
• Part III Institutional locations: the university and the state
• Part IV Affect and aesthetics
• Index