Believability
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Believability

Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt

Sarah Banet-Weiser, Kathryn Claire Higgins

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Believability

Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt

Sarah Banet-Weiser, Kathryn Claire Higgins

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About This Book

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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Publisher
Polity
Year
2023
ISBN
9781509553839
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

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    Citation styles for Believability

    APA 6 Citation

    Banet-Weiser, S., & Higgins, K. C. (2023). Believability (1st ed.). Polity. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3897553 (Original work published 2023)

    Chicago Citation

    Banet-Weiser, Sarah, and Kathryn Claire Higgins. (2023) 2023. Believability. 1st ed. Polity. https://www.perlego.com/book/3897553.

    Harvard Citation

    Banet-Weiser, S. and Higgins, K. C. (2023) Believability. 1st edn. Polity. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3897553 (Accessed: 1 July 2024).

    MLA 7 Citation

    Banet-Weiser, Sarah, and Kathryn Claire Higgins. Believability. 1st ed. Polity, 2023. Web. 1 July 2024.