Believability: sexual violence, media, and the politics of doubt

"The #MeToo movement created more opportunities for women to speak up about sexual assault. But we are also living in a time when "fake news" and "alternative facts" call into question the very nature of truth. This troubling paradox is at the heart of this compelling book....

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1. VerfasserIn: Banet-Weiser, Sarah 1966- (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Higgins, Kathryn Claire
Medienart: Druck Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Hoboken, NJ polity 2023
In:Jahr: 2023
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Zusammenfassung:"The #MeToo movement created more opportunities for women to speak up about sexual assault. But we are also living in a time when "fake news" and "alternative facts" call into question the very nature of truth. This troubling paradox is at the heart of this compelling book. The convergence of #MeToo and the crisis of post-truth is used to explore the experience of women and people of color whose claims around issues of sexual violence are often held in doubt. Banet-Weiser and Higgins investigate how the gendered and racialized logics of "believability" are defined and contested within media culture, proposing that a mediated "economy of believability" is the context in which public bids for truth about sexual violence are made, negotiated, and authorized today. Believability is a provocative intervention that will appeal to scholars and students across the social sciences and humanities, as well as to general readers."--Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 210-239
Physische Details:250 Seiten
ISBN:9781509553822
9781509553815