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Tainted witness : why we doubt what women say about their lives /

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 v...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gilmore, Leigh, 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Colección:Gender and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.