Resisting Rape Culture through Pop Culture is a powerful examination of the ways in which popular culture can offer resistance to dominant culture by offering positive representations of masculinity and sexuality. Scholars of popular culture, media studies, critical cultural studies and women's and gender studies will find this book useful not only in the way that it engages the wealth of literature relevant to the #MeToo movement, but also in the way that it advocates for representation as a means of resistance.

The Journal of Popular Culture

Now that #MeToo has shone a harsh light on the dark side of sex in America, we need pathways out of the shadows. Resisting Rape Culture Through Pop Culture: Sex After #MeToo sets us on our feet. Centering pop cultural examples that model healthy, equitable, and consensual sexualities, it not only shows us the way; it reveals—blessedly—that we’re already well on it.

Lisa Wade, Occidental College

Now that the #MeToo Movement has saturated our culture, there's work to be done to dismantle the systems that created the need for the movement in the first place. In Resisting Rape Culture through Pop Culture: Sex After #MeToo, Kelly Wilz makes her case and provides new, positive models for how we can move forward from here. Through the mediated texts she considers, Wilz shows us visions of a future that include supporting survivors of sexual violence and healthy approaches to consent, pleasure, and masculinity. It's a future I'd very much like to reach.

Molly Ann Magestro, Miles Community College