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[Commlist] New Book | Performing #MeToo: How Not to Look Away

Fri May 14 15:12:03 GMT 2021





Intellect is pleased to announce that /*Performing #MeToo: How Not to Look Away <https://www.intellectbooks.com/performing-metoo>*/, edited by Judith Rudakoff, is now available in ebook and hardback.

A tweet by American actor and activist Alyssa Milano, sent on October 15, 2017, opened the floodgates to an outpouring of testimony and witnessing across the Twitterverse that reverberated throughout social media. Facebook status lines quickly began to read “Me too,” and #MeToo was trending. That tweet re-launched the ‘me too’ movement which was started in 2006 by Tarana Burke. /Performing #MeToo: How Not to Look Away/ does not attempt to deliver a comprehensive examination of how #MeToo is performed. What it does aim at presenting is a set of perspectives on the events identified as representative of the movement, through a lens or lenses that are multinational, as well as work and analysis from a variety of time periods, written in a diversity of styles. By providing this means of engaging with examples of the many interpretations of and responses to the #MeToo movement, and by identifying these responses (and those of audiences) as provocations, of examples of how not to look away, the collected chapters are intended to invite reflection, discussion and, hopefully, incite action.

It gives writers from diverse cultural and environmental contexts an opportunity to speak about this cultural moment in their own voices. There is a wide geographical range and variety of forms of performance addressed in this timely new book. The international group of contributors are based in the UK, USA, Australia, South Africa, Scotland, Canada, India, Italy and South Korea. The topics addressed by writers include socially engaged practice; celebrity feminism, archive, repertoire; rape/war; misogynistic speech; stage management and intimacy facilitation; key institutions’ responses; spatial practices as well as temporal ones; academic call-outs; caste/class; political contexts; adaptation of classic texts; activist events; bouffon (a clown technique) and audience response.
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*Acknowledgements*
*Introduction *–**/Judith Rudakoff/

*1. *“Vital Acts of Transfer”: #MeToo and the Performance of Embodied Knowledge – /Shana MacDonald/

*2. *Bite the Bullet: The Practice of Protest as a Coping Mechanism – /Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga/

*3. *Resisting Theatre: The Political in the Performative – /Effie Samara/

*4. *Supporting Brave Spaces for Theatre-Makers Post-#MeToo: A Chicago-Based Study on Rehearsing and Performing Intimacy in Theatre – /Susan Fenty Studham/

*5. */We Get It/: Calling Out Sexism and Harassment in Australia’s Live Performance Industry – /Sarah Thomasson/

*6. *Toward the Origin of Performing #MeToo: Franca Rame’s /The Rape/ as an Example of Personal and Political Theatre/Therapy – /Laura Peja and Fausto Colombo/

*7. *The Royal Court in the Wake of #MeToo – /Catriona Fallow and Sarah Jane Mullan/

*8. *Dissident Solidarities: Power, Pedagogy, Care – /Swati Arora/

*9. *Conversations with /Noura/: Iraqi American Women and a Response to /A Doll’s House/ – /Mary P. Caulfield/

*10. *#MeToo: Theatre Women Share Their Stories – /Yvette Heyliger/

*11. */Les Zoubliettes/: Raging through Laughter—a Feminist Disturbance – /Sonia Norris/

*12. *“I’m the person to speak about myself”: Self-Declaration, Reversal of Power, and Solidarity in /The Red Book/ – /Yuh J. Hwang
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*Appendix:* A Primer on the International #MeToo Movement – /Elise A. LaCroix/
*Biographies of Contributors
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Please visit our website for more information:
https://www.intellectbooks.com/performing-metoo <https://www.intellectbooks.com/performing-metoo>


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