The #MeToo Movement in Iran: Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment

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The Iranian #MeToo movement was a crucial form of resistance, with ordinary Iranian women sharing their experiences of sexual harassment and assault in the public sphere of cyberspace. Yet despite its significance, there is no major work dedicated to #MeToo in Iran. This is the first book of its kind providing a comprehensive analysis of the Iranian #MeToo movement. Based on archival, empirical, ethnographic, literary and cultural research, the contributors discuss the abuse of women report and women and societys responses to it. Part one examines the specific nature of the Iranian #MeToo movement and how it has shifted concepts such as sexual harassment, sexual violence, and consent. Part two focuses on the intersection of power and privilege in silencing the voices of the survivors of sexual harassment in Iran, particularly focusing on male power. Part three covers the intersections of various systems of oppression specifically highlighting marginalized voices according to sexuality and class. Finally, part fourexamines how cinematic and literary works have normalized and even romanticized sexual harassment and how this is being challenged.

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Claudia Yaghoobi is a Roshan Institute Associate Professor in Persian Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. She is the author of Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Literature and Film (2020) and Subjectivity in Attar, Persian Sufism, and European Mysticism (2017).