Believability : Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt

by Kathryn Claire Higgins , Sarah Banet-Weiser

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Format Paperback / Softback

ISBN-10 1509553827

ISBN-13 9781509553822

Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Imprint Polity Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 28th, 2023

Print length 256 Pages

Weight 328 grams

Dimensions 13.80 x 21.60 x 2.00 cms

Product Classification: Society & culture: general

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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 experiences 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.

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