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In the wake of the MeToo movement, revelations of sexual assault andharassment continue to disrupt sexual politics across the globe. Reports ofrecurrent and widespread misconduct — in workplaces from doctors’ officesto factory floors — are precipitating firings, legal actions, street protests, and |policy punditry. Meenakshi Gigi Durham situates media cultureas a place in which these broader |social struggles are enacted and reproduced. The media figures whose depravitysparked the #MeToo movementare symbolic markers of the complexities ofsexual desire and consent. Pop culture sparks controversies about rape culture;social media users have launched feminist resistance that turned to real-worldactivism; investigative journalists have broken stories of assault, offering aplatform for survivors to speak truth to patriarchal power. Arguing that themedia area linchpin in these events, Durham provides a feminist account of the interrelated contexts of media production, representation, and reception. She situates media as the key site where the establishment of sexuality and social relations takes place, and traces the media’s powerful role in both reifying and challenging rape culture. This timely and stimulating book will be of interest to students and scholarsof media, communication, gender studies, and sociology, as well as anyoneconcernedby the currentstate of sexual politics (Provided by publisher)

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