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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The cascading nature of revolutions -- The survivor and her narrative -- The power of stories -- From celebrity women to the marginalised -- Local versus global -- Decolonisation and women's resistance -- The master's tools? Social media and feminist resistance -- Global reach -- Justice: Law and due process, restorative and reformative -- Rage and radical rudeness: The disruptive language of revolution -- A different battle: Consent and sex -- The future of the movement -- Theories - contexts - perspectives -- Notes -- Part I Theories -- 1 Struggle, solidarity, and social change -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 #MeToo as a revolutionary cascade -- Unpredictable revolutions -- Three factors -- Preference falsification -- Diverse thresholds -- Interdependencies -- Unpredictability -- Complications -- #MeToo -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Global #MeToo -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Subject of desire / subject of feminism: Some notes on the split subject(s) of #MeToo -- Note 1: From maids to maidens -- Note 2: The medium is the message -- Note 3: Behind the screen(s): A Hollywood story -- Note 4: "Sexuality"? -- Note 5: Aporias of consent -- Note 6: Towards a new theory - and practice - of (heterosexual) seduction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 #MeToo as a variegated phenomenon against men's violences and violations: Implications for men and masculinities -- The variegated phenomenon of #MeToo -- Cyberpolitics, online/offline -- Celebrities and the significance of workplaces -- The relations of individuals and collectivities -- Memory, forgetting, and surprise -- Shifts across sexual harassment, sexual violence, violences -- Implications of #MeToo for men and masculinities... -- Absence-presence.

Abstract
This essay offers a gendered reading of the confluence of violence and faith in Romanian literature, through a reading of two texts: Tatiana Bran's "Deadly Confession", and Elie Wiesel's "Night". While the former looks at the violence visited upon women in the context of religion and faith, the latter seeks to locate the place of women in the course of the loss of faith in a male context. The essay embeds these readings within the larger context of women and violence in Romanian literature from the 19th century to the present. While the instance of Bran's novel serves as representative of much of this literature, the example of Wiesel's autobiographical narrative is uniquely contextualized by the field of Holocaust literature. Nevertheless, it is possible to see these two readings – one, a woman authored text of violence against women, the other, a male authored text of women as a refuge from violence – as complementing each other in the ways in which women respond to faith and the loss of faith.