Tainted witness : why we doubt what women say about their lives / Leigh Gilmore.
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]Description: xi, 218 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780231177146 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation
- Sex discrimination -- Law and legislation
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration
- Witnesses -- Public opinion
- Crime -- Sex differences
- Women -- Crimes against -- Law and legislation -- Public opinion
- False testimony
- Feminist theory
- 342.7308/78 23
- K3243 .G55 2017
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index.
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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