在#MeToo运动成为一场声势浩大的全球运动之前，这些标签代表着从乌克兰到秘鲁的活动人士，他们要求对针对女性、跨性别者和女孩的性暴力、种族主义、仇外心理和厌女症追究责任。在Tarana Burke等推广“MeToo”一词的活动人士的领导下，这些运动号召世界各地的幸存者勇敢地讲述自己的经历。
在《#MeToo 及未来》一书中， M. Cristina Alcalde和Paula-Irene Villa汇集了来自不同背景的学者和活动家，从多个空间、立场和专业领域探讨 #MeToo，其中许多人来自全球北方媒体版图中经常被忽视和研究不足的地区和背景。本书涵盖了来自世界各地的视角，涉及多个主题，包括男性气质研究、跨性别者遭受性骚扰和暴力的风险增加、美国犹太社区在活动家开始公开反对那些依赖共同文化价值观羞辱受害者的知名人士时产生的内部冲突，以及首次旨在终结性别暴力的国际性努力的许多其他重要方面。编辑和撰稿人响应了伯克的号召，放大了边缘化的声音，使这些声音不再成为注脚，而是引导活动家将复调作为理解过去、现在和未来性别暴力和抵抗形式的核心。
本书旨在深刻探讨性暴力的普遍性和特殊性，以及在任何地方阻止性别暴力的集体努力。活动家和学者会发现，这本书对当前和未来关于性暴力和全球运动的讨论做出了重要且必要的贡献。
好评：
"This book brings our attention to gendered power dynamics in public and private spaces of the #MeToo conversations while it stays with the trouble and keep up the polyphonic, complex, and partly arduous conversation about how intimacy and bodies within systems of dominance and hierarchies structure the values of individuals, organizations and institutions, and entire societies."―Andrea Pető, Professor, CEU, Vienna
"This volume provides a much-needed corrective to popular depictions of #MeToo as a movement led by white, wealthy, cisgender, heterosexual celebrity women in the United States and the Global North. The diverse voices that speak clearly from these pages decenter the perspectives and experiences of those with privilege, while simultaneously highlighting commonalities across diverse positionalities."―Claire M. Renzetti, editor of Violence against Women: An International, Interdisciplinary Journal
"#MeToo is a global movement concerning all genders, but in intersectional ways. This great book brings in multiple voices, tensions, and experiences that reflect diverse class, generational, racialized, and gendered positions. It also covers exclusions produced by feminist movements themselves. Disrupting hegemonial knowledges, it provides a polyphony for understanding past, current, and future forms of gendered violence and resistance, and highlights the power of self-reflexive transnational feminism for nonviolent futures."―Ilse Lenz, author of The New Women's Movement in Germany and Processual Intersectionality
"Despite the seemingly unifying hashtag #MeToo, the continuum that runs from sexual harassment to unwanted touching to rape (and everything in between) is among the most complex, multi-valanced feminist movements that have gained prominence in recent decades―and nothing shows this more vividly than this collection of diverse narratives. While the movement is rightfully described as global in scope, the different national and cultural perspectives represented demonstrate just how important history and cultural context are to the differing shapes and priorities #MeToo has taken―as well as the distinctive dilemmas impeding and furthering progress. A very valuable, highly instructive collection."―Susan Bordo, author and professor emerita of gender studies at the University of Kentucky
"The #MeToo campaign on social media grew from a history of feminist activism against gendered violence. This fascinating book explores both the campaign's astonishing global reach and its troubled encounters with class privilege, racial inequalities, sexuality and state power. With case studies from five continents, it is a very rich resource for understanding contemporary gender politics."―Raewyn Connell, author of Gender: In World Perspective
"The editors did a fantastic job. . . showing #MeToo in multiple countries, contexts, and scenarios. Despite the multiplicity, the book shows the global cohesiveness of the movement and its struggles. . .(this work) brings a wider perspective to #MeToo outside of the United States and reflecting its global implications."―H-Net
关于作者：
M. Cristina Alcalde is the vice president for institutional diversity and inclusion at Miami University in Ohio, where she is also professor of global and intercultural studies. She is the author or editor of several books, including Peruvian Lives across Borders: Power, Exclusion, and Home. Paula-Irene Villa is chair and professor of sociology and gender studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität–Munich, and president of the German Sociological Association. She is the author or editor of several books, including The Future of Difference: Beyond the Toxic Entanglement of Racism, Sexism, and Feminism, coauthored with Sabine Hark.