Anti-violence activism, new feminisms, and India's #MeToo

Srila Roy

Chapter 15 in Handbook on Politics and Society, 2025, pp 277-293 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Frustrated with the limits of legal redressal and logics of due process, younger feminists have sought redressal for gender-based violence beyond state and law. They have turned to digital technologies to directly intervene in acts of violation and hold perpetrators to account. The global #MeToo movement is the clearest manifestation of such new feminist anti-violence activism. What distinguished #MeToo was its transnational reach and greater capacity to travel than previous feminist counterpublics. Northern voices have dominated debates on #MeToo, however. They have eclipsed the ways in which the hashtag travelled outside of the North and folded into existing and highly intersectional struggles. This contribution turns to India's #MeToo, which revitalised long-standing feminist struggles around sexual violence, offering new tactics and repertoires, and visibility for a new generation of feminist and anti-caste activists. The hypervisibility of #MeToo made many other things visible, including the dominance of majoritarian feminist voices, tensions amongst feminists, and the limits of feminist change. The prehistories and afterlives of #MeToo tell us something broader about existing state-society relations, civil society engagements, and broader processes of democratisation.

Keywords: Gender-based violence; MeToo; LOSHA; India; Caste; Transnational feminism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035301898
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