On this episode of Book Driving Change we talk with Meighan Stone who, with Rachel Vogelstein, has written a book called Awakening: #MeToo and the Global Fight for Women's Rights, which is published by the Council on Foreign Relations here in New York. It's an extraordinary book, not least because it shows in a way that nothing I've read before really has, the extent to which the Me Too movement is a global movement. And actually one, and this is something I'll explore with Meighan, that really finds extraordinary commonalities about the experience of women in society, including in countries that you might have thought were very different in terms of the status of women and the experience of women. And it shows there to be a global women's movement revival going on.
Show me the social movement where there was no backlash. I'll wait for an answer, because there is none. There is not an example of a social movement that didn't trigger backlash. Because these things feel very threatening when we start to change the structures of society. --
Meighan Stone, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign
Relations; Former President, Malala Foundation