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Author Gilmore, Leigh, 1959- author.

Title Tainted witness : why we doubt what women say about their lives / Leigh Gilmore.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]

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 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  342.7308 GIL    Check Shelf
Description xi, 218 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Gender and culture
Gender and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Subject 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 -- Public opinion.
False testimony.
Feminist theory.
ISBN 9780231177146 (hardcover)
0231177143 (hardcover)
9780231543446 (electronic book)
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