On agency and empowerment in a #MeToo world

In the midst of the #MeToo movement sweeping across different societies, what opportunities and challenges exist for changing extant gender structures and systems that have allowed for sexual harassment and assault to take shape? Such a discussion provokes questions around what kinds of feminisms, b...

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Published in:Gender, work, and organization work, and organization, 2019-08, Vol.26 (8), p.1212-1220
Main Author: Ozkazanc‐Pan, Banu
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
agency
Collectivism
Decolonization
Empowerment
Equality
Feminism
feminist
Gender
Gender inequality
Intersectionality
MeToo
Organizational change
Postcolonialism
Sex crimes
Sexual harassment
Social change
Traditions
Transnationalism
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Summary:In the midst of the #MeToo movement sweeping across different societies, what opportunities and challenges exist for changing extant gender structures and systems that have allowed for sexual harassment and assault to take shape? Such a discussion provokes questions around what kinds of feminisms, both as philosophical traditions and as a set of praxis/practices, enable societal and organizational change. This article focuses explicitly on different notions of agency deriving from various feminist traditions to underscore possibilities for engaging in such change. Borrowing from intersectional, decolonial, postcolonial and transnational feminist perspectives, I suggest that a collectivist approach to agency is necessary for gender system change. I coin collective feminism as a way to conceptualize agency that only becomes possible through the work of many and then discuss this mode of feminism in relation to empowerment and social change toward gender equality.
ISSN:0968-6673
1468-0432
DOI:10.1111/gwao.12311