TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gilmore,Leigh
TI  - Tainted witness: why we doubt what women say about their lives 
SN  - 9780231177146 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - K3243 .G55 2017
U1  - 342.7308/78 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Sex discrimination against women
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Sex discrimination
KW  - Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration
KW  - Witnesses
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Crime
KW  - Sex differences
KW  - Women
KW  - Crimes against
KW  - False testimony
KW  - Feminist theory
N1  - 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
ER  -