This book analyzes global media representations of misogyny—including sexual harassment, rape, and even murder—to discuss the systemic nature of misogyny and the evils perpetrated against women across the world as a result.

Misogyny across Global Media argues that, although women’s experiences under misogyny are by no means universal, patriarchal social and institutional systems facilitate gender-based hostility across the globe. Contributors demonstrate how systemic misogyny and power inequities are at the root of women’s suffering at the hands of misogyny, with consequences ranging from sexual harassment to rape and even murder. This book provides an interdisciplinary overview of systemic misogyny worldwide, analyzing specific cases such as the controversial Child Marriage Act in Bangladesh, sexual harassment in India’s Bollywood culture, rape culture among military forces in Jammu and Kashmir, the murder of female students in Kenya, and femicide in Turkey. This collection discusses how misogyny creates a clash of cultures between men and women, the powerful and the oppressed, and the conservative and the liberal, and uncovers the evils that are perpetrated against women worldwide as a result of systemic misogyny. Scholars of gender studies, media studies, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful.

Preface

Chapter 1: #WhatNext: Political Implications of the #MeToo Campaign Aftermath

Bernadette Ann Bowen

Chapter 2: From Sexual Explicitness to Invisibility in Resistance Art: Coloniality, Rape Culture, and Technology

Chloe S. Georas

Chapter 3: The Artists, the Institutions, and the Accusations: The #MeToo Movement ant the ArtWorld

Becky Beamer

Chapter 4: Women as ‘Sites of Gendered Politics’: Misogyny of Religions in Armed Conflict

Tamanna M. Shah

Chapter 5: Misogyny and Philogyny in Music: Shakira, Rihanna, and Madonna

Ali Kumael Rizvi and Wajiha Raza Rizvi

Chapter 6: “The R in R&B”: Rape, Race, and Representation in Surviving R. Kelly

Adelina Mbinjama-Gamatham, Thabo Ramphobole, and Nancy Morkel

Chapter 7: Media Coverage of the Misogynistic and Controversial Child Marriage Restraint Act (2017) in Bangladesh

Masudul Biswas

Chapter 8: Misogyny and Social Ethics: Responses in Vedic and Other Texts

Nikhil Moro

Chapter 9: Mitigating Misogyny in India: Theorizing Digital-Age Feminist Activism in the World’s Largest Democracy

Deb Aikat

Chapter 10: News Sourcing, Gender, and Misogyny in #MeToo India: A Content Analysis of the #MeTo Movement in Indian Newspapers

Shreenita Ghosh and Kruthika Kamath

Chapter 11: Self-Acceptance and Hip-Hop Music: An Exploration among Female Students at Delhi University

Sonali Srivastav

Chapter 12: Negotiating Gender Spaces in Mainstream Bollywood Narratives: A Thematic Discourse Analysis of Female Representation

K. M. Baharul Islam and Sana Fatima

Chapter 13: Representations of Misogyny in the Kenyan Media: A Case Study of the Online Versions of the Nairobian and the Star Newspapers

Muthoni E. King’ori and Joseph Nyanoti

Chapter 14: ‘The Media are Male’: The Violence of Women’s Representation in Zimbabwean Media

Khanyile Mlotshwa

Chapter 15: Sexist Hate Speech and the Reproduction of Power Inequalities on Social Media: The Murder of Ceren Damar in Turkey

Cemile Tokgoz

Chapter 16: The Representation of Misogyny and #MeToo in the English and Irish Press

Lori F. Brost and Maria B. Marron

Glossary

About the Contributors