Legitimising a Feminist Agenda

The #metoo petitions in Sweden 2017–2018

Bibliographic Data

ID8247306
AuthorsKarin Hansson (0000-0002-5962-1536), Malin Sveningsson, Hillevi Ganetz (0000-0003-4774-5555), Maria Sandgren (0000-0003-2056-0526)
Year2020
Volume2
Issue1
Pages121-132
Publication date2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNordic Journal of Media Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2003-184X • E-ISSN: 2003-184X
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.2478/njms-2020-0011
OpenAlexW3034339315
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited24

During 2017 and 2018, the #metoo hashtag united a global movement against sexual abuse and harassment. In Sweden, a large portion of the attention was given to the voices of working women, who organised and wrote petitions that were published in news media. Previous research has found that media reports of sexual abuse often focus on singular stories, rather than describing the underlying structural problems, and that the problem is often framed as an individual rather than structural problem. This article accounts for a qualitative content analysis of the first 28 published #metoo petitions in Sweden, with the goal of understanding how these framed the issue. In contrast to previous research, this study shows how the petitions established a coherent feminist explanatory framework that placed the problems on a structural level by focusing on work environments and framing demands in terms of general and perfectly reasonable human rights

Criminology · Feminism · Feminist movement · Framing (construction · Harassment · Media studies · Poison control · Political science · Sexual abuse · Sexual assault · Sociology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Sex work and related issues · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Gender Studies · History · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Law

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