num_pages: 200
description: Me not you pulls back the curtain on #MeToo and other recent feminist campaigns against sexual violence. In a right-moving world women's anger about sexual violence has been celebrated as a progressive force. However mainstream feminist politics is unable to tackle the converging systems of gender race and class which produce sexual violence. Phipps argues that the mainstream movement against sexual violence expresses a political whiteness which both reflects its demographics and limits its revolutionary potential. Privileged white women use their traumatic experiences to create media outrage and rely on state power and bureaucracy to purge 'bad men' from elite institutions with little concern for where they might appear next. Even more dangerously the more reactionary branches of this feminist movement are complicit with the far-right in their attacks on sex workers and trans people. This text is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of sexual violence and the feminist movement more generally.
language: English
title: Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism
publisher: Manchester University Press