Title Tainted witness : why we doubt what women say about their lives / Leigh Gilmore.

Publication Info.	New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
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Description	1 online resource (xi, 218 pages).
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Physical Medium	polychrome
Series	Gender and culture
	Gender and culture.
Summary	In 1991, Anita Hill brought testimony and scandal into America's living rooms during televised Senate confirmation hearings in which she detailed the sexual harassment she had suffered at the hands of Clarence Thomas. The male Senate Judiciary Committee refused to take Hill seriously, and the veracity of Hill's claims were sullied in the mainstream media. Hill was defamed as #x93;a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty," and Thomas was confirmed. The tainting of Hill and her testimony are part of a larger social history in which women find themselves caught up in a system that refuses to believ.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: tainted witness in testimonial networks -- Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the search for an adequate witness -- Jurisdictions and testimonial networks: Rigoberta Menchu -- Neoliberal life narrative: from testimony to self-help -- Witness by proxy: girls in humanitarian storytelling -- Tainted witness in law and literature: Nafissatou Diallo and Jamaica Kincaid -- Conclusion: testimonial publics-#BlackLivesMatter and Claudia Rankine's Citizen.
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Language	In English.
Subject	Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation.
	Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation.
	Sex discrimination -- Law and legislation.
	Sex discrimination -- Law and legislation.
	Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration.
	Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration.
	Witnesses -- Public opinion.
	Witnesses.
	Public opinion.
	Witnesses in mass media.
	Crime -- Sex differences.
	Crime -- Sex differences.
	Women -- Crimes against -- Law and legislation -- Public opinion.
	Women -- Crimes against -- Law and legislation -- Public opinion.
	Women -- Crimes against.
	False testimony.
	False testimony.
	Feminist theory.
	Feminist theory.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Subject	Women.
	Womyn.
	Feminist theory.
Other Form:	Print version: Gilmore, Leigh, 1959- Tainted witness. New York : Columbia University Press, [2017] 9780231177146 (DLC) 2016033453 (OCoLC)950448502
ISBN	9780231543446 (electronic book)
	0231543441 (electronic book)
	9780231177146
	0231177143
Standard No.	99972349448
	10.7312/gilm17714

Title Tainted witness : why we doubt what women say about their lives / Leigh Gilmore.

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