Mei-Hua Chen

The #MeToo Movement in Taiwan: Reconfiguring the Intimate Life

The #MeToo movement has been claimed as a global movement that connects women in the global North and the global South. Nonetheless, the MeToo movement must always confront various local social, economic, and cultural relations when it spreads across the globe. It also demands social, legal, and even material infrastructures to materialise. Global South countries that fail to deliver the MeToo movement might relate to the lack of efficient internet infrastructure and the taboo of talking about sex in public (e.g. Bangladesh), freedom of speech (e.g. China), or severe social stratification such as India in which the MeToo movement only circulated among the rich and well-educated elite women...
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Mei-Hua Chen

Mei-Hua Chen is a Professor at the Department of Sociology at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan