Research Guides @ Fordham: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS): #MeToo Movement

Researching the #MeToo Movement

This page holds a selection of resources on the #MeToo movement. The phrase was coined by Tarana Burke in 2006 and the hashtag was popularized by Alyssa Milano in 2017.

For best results, remember to:

Search for articles with the databases listed on the Articles & Databases page. Some databases will recognize #MeToo as a hashtag, while others will separate the words. Experiment using the hashtag as well as spelling out the words separately to see what works.

Look through YouTube, Vimeo, podcast platforms, and social media platforms for interviews, speeches, and other commentary with activist leaders to use as primary sources.

Reference Sources

Additional Research Guides

The following research guides may also be helpful for researching #MeToo:

#MeToo Founder Tarana Burke

Video credit: "Me Too Is a Movement, Not A Moment" By Tarana Burke. Includes options for subtitles in various languages. See supporting information and the transcript for more information.

Selection of Books

Search the Library Catalog for additional options.

Unbound : My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke
Flatiron Books, 2021.
Call number [RH & LC Stacks] HV6592 .B87 2021
#HashtagActivism [electronic resource] : Networks of Race and Gender Justice by Sarah J. Jackson; Moya Bailey; Brooke Foucault Welles;
MIT Press, 2020.
Me, Not You [electronic resource] : The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism by Alison Phipps
Manchester University Press, 2020.
#MeToo, Weinstein and Feminism by Karen Boyle
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Call number [RH Stacks] HV6250.4.W65 B69 2019
Catch and Kill : Lies, Spies, and A Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Call number [LC & RH Stacks] HD6060.3 .F37 2019
She Said : Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor; Megan Twohey
Penguin Press, 2019.
Call number [LC & RH Stacks] HD6060.3 .K36 2019

Organizations & MeToo

Nonprofit organizations produce research (known as grey literature) and contain other content that may be examined as primary sources documenting #MeToo.

Policy File Index This link opens in a new window
Proquest platform for searching public policy research and analysis from think tanks, organizations, and more.

TIME’S UP Now
Formally launched in 2018 by more than 300 women in entertainment industry to focus on safety, equity, and power for women in the workplace.
The Survivors’ Agenda
A collective of organizations who believe survivors should be the ones shaping the national conversation on sexual violence coming out of #MeToo.

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