MeToo in East Asia
The Politics of Speaking Out
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6354580 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chang‐ling Huang (National Taiwan University, corresponding author), Chang-Ling Huang |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 483-490 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics & Gender (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1743-923X • E-ISSN: 1743-9248 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1743923x21000234 |
| OpenAlex | W3197972869 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 5 |
The global diffusion of #MeToo has sparked case studies and scholarly discussions (Fileborn and Loney-Howes 2019; Lee and Murdie 2020; Noel and Oppenheimer 2020), but the East Asian experience remains understudied, especially from a comparative perspective within and outside the region. The internet hashtag movement emerged from quality investigative journalism, and the movement has done what the law could not (MacKinnon 2018). Examining tweets that include the English version of the hashtag, Lee and Murdie (2020) found that women are more likely to engage in #MeToo in countries where their political rights are better protected. This finding, however, does not seem to fit East Asia's experience. The region's earliest and longest democracy, Japan, had a much milder movement than neighboring South Korea. Many South Korean women publicly named their perpetrators, but Japanese women, when sharing their experience of being harassed, mostly remained anonymous (Hasunuma and Shin 2019). Moreover, Taiwan, arguably the most gender-equal country in this region—if measured by women's political representation (42% in the national legislature) or by policies toward sexual minorities (it was the first Asian country to legalize same-sex marriage)—has had virtually no #MeToo movement
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The analysis of “women reports” in a Chinese newspaper during #MeToo
Witnessing #MeToo in Japan
The politics of speaking up
Electoral role models
When speaking out goes too far
Understanding resilience and resistance against sexual harassment in a patri-authoritarian context
Does Gender Equality Matter for Democracy? Confucian Norms and Public Attitudes Toward Democracy in East Asia
Breaking the silence on femicide
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |