Speaker Series - The New Sex Wars: Sexual Harm in the #MeToo Era
- Date
- November 21, 2022
- Time
- 12:00 PM EST - 1:00 PM EST
- Location
- POD455 - A pizza lunch will be provided
- Open To
- Lincoln Alexander School of Law Community
The stunning explosion of #MeToo on social media radically changed - and amplified - conversations about sexual violence while toppling prominent celebrities and politicians. But, as the movement spread, a conflict emerged among feminist supporters and detractors about how justice should be served.
In her latest book, The New Sex Wars, Professor Brenda Cossman explores feminist debates about #MeToo and the history of these past conflicts - the resistance to finding common ground, the media’s pleasure in characterizing the debates as polarized cat fights, and the simplification of viewpoints as pro- and anti-sex.
Speaker
Prof. Brenda Cossman is the Goodman-Schipper Chair and Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She writes in the area of gender, sexuality and law, and is the author of The New Sex Wars: Sexual Harm in the #MeToo Era (NYU Press, 2021). Prof. Cossman's other books include Sexual Citizens: The Legal and Cultural Regulation of Sex and Belonging ( Stanford University Press in 2007), and the co-authored Bad Attitudes on Trial: Pornography, Feminism and the Butler Decision (University of Toronto Press).
This event is part of of the Lincoln Alexander Law Speaker 2022/23. For more information, visit the series page.