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

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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*_Table of Contents
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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 
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