By using a qualitative study involving 80 participants, the aim of this study is to investigate the relevance of the MeToo movement as a tool for responding to sexual violence among women in Zambia. Our findings suggest that rather than definitively establishing the MeToo movement as an incontestable good or as useless because it ignores cultural realities as argued by its critics, our findings demonstrate the diversity of how this movement is locally viewed and also illustrates the complexity and multidimensionality of how it is characterized in Zambia. Our findings thus question the folly of a “one-size-fits-all” understanding and characterization of the MeToo movement. The study ends by providing suggestions about how to navigate this complexity.
BauerM.GaskellG. (2008). Social representations theory: A progressive research programme for social psychology. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 38(4), 1–19. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5914.2008.00374.x
4.
BrajanacA. (2019). Addressing intersectionality in the #MeToo movement-A case study of women’s mobilization under the #MeToo movement in thepostcolonial context of South Africa.Goterborgs Universitet: Department of Political Science. Retrieved fromhttps://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/61869
ChooE.ByingtonC.JohnsonN.JagsiR. (2019). From #MeToo to #TimesUp in health care: can a culture of accountability end inequity and harassment?Lancet, 9(393), 499-502. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30251-X
8.
EvansA. (2014). ‘Women can do what men can do’: The causes and consequences of growing flexibility in gender divisions of labour in Kitwe, Zambia. Journal of Southern African Studies, 40(5). https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2014.946214
Holroyd-LeducJ. M.StrausS. E. (2018). #MeToo and the medical profession. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 190(33), 972-973. https://dx.doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.181037
MakasaI.HeathfieldL. J. (2018). A retrospective study of sexual offences in Zambia. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 54(54), 23–33. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2017.12.009
MoscoviciS. (1998). The history and actuality of social representations. In FlickU. (Ed.). The psychology of the social. Cambridge University Press.
19.
MusuneJ.GadsenF.KusanthanT. (2016). Factors influencing intimate partner violence against men in Lusaka, Zambia. Research Academy of Social Sciences, 4(557), 119–126. https://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jcfs.39.4.557
20.
MuzyambaC.BroaddusE.CampbellC. (2015). “You cannot eat rights”: A qualitative study of views by Zambian HIV-vulnerable women, youth and MSM on human rights as public health tools. BMC International Health and Human Rights, 15(26). https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12914-015-0067-6
21.
MuzyambaC.GrootW.PavlovaM.RudI.TominiS. M. (2018). Professional care delivery or traditional birth attendants? The impact of the type of care utilized by mothers on under-five mortality of their children. BMC Tropical Medicine and Health, 46(8). https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-018-0090-0
22.
MuzyambaC.GrootW.PavlovaM.TominS. (2017). The usefulness of traditional birth attendants to women living with HIV in resource-poor settings: the case of Mfuwe, Zambia. BMC Tropical Medicine and Health, 45(37). https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-017-0076-3
23.
MuzyambaC.GrootW.TominiS.PavlovaM. (2018). Community mobilization and maternal Care of Women Living with HIV in poor settings: the case of Mfuwe, Zambia. BMC Health Services, 18(155). https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-2959-3
Women and Law in Southern Africa. (2012). They are destroying our futures: Sexual violence against girls in Zambian schools: Cornell Law School. Retrieved fromhttps://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/avon_clarke/5/
World Health Organization. (2013). Global and regional estimates of violence against women: Prevalence and health effects of intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence: WHO. Retrieved fromhttps://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241564625
Please find the following supplemental material available below.
For Open Access articles published under a Creative Commons License, all supplemental material carries the same license as the article it is associated with.
For non-Open Access articles published, all supplemental material carries a non-exclusive license, and permission requests for re-use of supplemental material or any part of supplemental material shall be sent directly to the copyright owner as specified in the copyright notice associated with the article.
