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dc.titleMore than a hashtag: Excitement, Anguish and the Semblant of #MeToo
dc.contributor.authorOverell, Rosemary Therese
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-08T02:11:49Z
dc.date.available2022-07-08T02:11:49Z
dc.date.issued2019-10-23
dc.identifier.citationOverell, Rosemary Therese (2019-10-23). More than a hashtag: Excitement, Anguish and the Semblant of #MeToo. Theory and Event 22 : 792-819. ScholarBank@NUS Repository.
dc.identifier.issn1092-311X
dc.identifier.urihttps://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/228084
dc.description.abstract#MeToo generated what has been deemed 'exciting' debate about contemporary feminism and misogynist violence. Through popular media, such as Twitter and Instagram, women rallied around a hashtag which has been covered in traditional news outlets (NYT, Time etc.) as galvanizing a global feminist movement. In this essay, I use Lacanian psychoanalysis to understand such excitement as jouissance. Further, I suggest that the #MeToo 'mo(ve)ment' also pivots off a different affect to excitement: that of anguish–which demands an understanding of a divided, in this case, 'Woman' subject. I suggest that this not-whole Woman '#Me' of #MeToo does galvanise, but in the site of the Real.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherJohns Hopkins University Press
dc.sourceElements
dc.typeArticle
dc.date.updated2022-07-06T06:57:52Z
dc.contributor.departmentCOMMUNICATIONS AND NEW MEDIA
dc.description.sourcetitleTheory and Event
dc.description.volume22
dc.description.page792-819
dc.published.statePublished
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