Flirting in the Era of #MeToo

Alison Bartlett is Associate Professor at The University of Western Australia, Australia. She is the author of two books, on Australian literature and on maternal cultures, and has edited another four with the most recent being Things That Liberate: An Australian Feminist Wunderkammer (2013).Kyra Clarke is Lecturer in Media Studies at Massey University, New Zealand. She is the author of Affective Sexual Pedagogies in Film and Television (2017) and has published in journals including Feminist Media Studies, Continuum, and Sex Education.Rob Cover is Associate Professor at The University of Western Australia, Australia. He is Chief Investigator on Australian Research Council projects Queer Generations (2015-2018) and AusQueerScreen (2018-2020) and is author of four recent books, including Emergent Identities: New Sexualities, Gender and Relationships ina Digital Era (2018).

• 1. Introduction: Flirting, Scandal, Intimacy.- 2. #MeToo: Scandals and the Concept of Flirting.- 3. Playing with Scripts: Social Experiments and Reality Television.- 4. Flirting on Film: Boundaries and Consent, Visibility and Performance.- 5. Conclusion: Uncertain Times for Flirting.