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SOURCE: The Conversation
3/19/19
A half-century before the hashtag, artists were on the front lines of #MeToo
by Vivien G. Fryd
The cultural prominence of rape and sexual assault might be new. Efforts to bring attention to the issue, however, are not.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
10-26-18 (accessed)
The Court Case That Inspired the Gilded Age’s #MeToo Moment
A turn-of-the-century trial, the focus of a new book, took aim at the Victorian double standard.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
9-24-18
Writing the History of Sexual Assault in the Age of #MeToo
by Amy Stanley
Tsuneno was raped. She said so. But only after #MeToo did this historian decide to believe her.
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SOURCE: NYT
9-19-18
New York Review of Books Editor Is Out Amid Uproar Over #MeToo Essay
“I made a themed issue about #MeToo perpetrators who were not convicted by the judiciary but by social media. And now I am on the pillory myself.” – Historian Ian Buruma
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4/15/18
How Come Wall Street Hasn’t Been Caught Up in the #MeToo Movement?
by Robert Wright
The short answer: They’ve already been here before.
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12/24/17
We Have to Go Beyond Identifying and Punishing Individual Men
by Joan Wallach Scott
It’s the history of the oppression of women we have to contend with.
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SOURCE: Politico
12-16-17
Why We Shouldn’t Let the #MeToo Movement Change History
by David Greenberg
Some argue Bill Clinton should have resigned over the Lewinsky scandal. They’re getting it all wrong.
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