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Record Nr.

UNINA9910427709403321

Autore

Lazard Lisa

Titolo

Sexual harassment, psychology and feminism : #MeToo, victim politics and predators in neoliberal times / / Lisa Lazard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-030-55255-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 129 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

362.883019

Soggetti

Sexual abuse victims - Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1:Introduction -#MeToo and feminisms -- 2:Workplace Harassment, Hollywood’s Casting Couch and Neoliberalism -- 3:Women, Sexual Harassment and Victim Politics -- 4:The Sexual Harassment of Hollywood Men -- 5:Sexual Harassment and Sexual Predators in Neoliberal Times -- 6:Conclusion - Sexual Harassment and Speaking Rights.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a feminist psychological analysis of contemporary resistance to sexual harassment in and around #MeToo. It explores how women’s assumed empowerment in postfeminist and neoliberal feminist discourses has shaped understandings of sexual harassment and social responses to it. This exploration is grounded in the trajectories of feminist activism and psychological theory about sexual harassment. Lazard addresses the gendered binary of female victims and male perpetrators in contemporary victim politics and the treatment of perpetrators within postfeminist and neoliberal frames. In doing so, the author unpacks the cultural conditions which support or deny who gets to speak and be heard in #MeToo politics. This book will be a valuable resource not only for scholars and students from within the psychological sciences and gender studies, but for the wider social sciences and anyone interested in the psychological grounding of the #MeToo movement. Lisa Lazard is Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology and Counselling at the Open University, UK. Lisa is a social psychologist whose research areas include gender, subjectivity, sexual



violence and digital cultures.