ABSTRACT
In France, as in a great many other countries, #MeToo was a major feminist event. The chapter identifies the impact of that event and to place it in a wider timeframe in order to examine the continuities and breaks in the history of feminisms from a sociohistorical point of view. It was in the context of the activist and institutional feminists’ contributions from the 1970s that the #MeToo event was launched in France by the hashtags #balancetonporc (rat out your pig), then #MeToo. Its success demonstrated the power of its transnational dynamic. As women’s speaking out intensified, resistance was organised in a bid to defend and preserve an alleged “French identity”. The #MeToo moment encouraged activists, despite numerous internal debates, to join forces in what can be seen as a revival of a feminist uprising on an as yet unknown scale.
