Believability

Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt

Sarah Banet-Weiser,Kathryn Claire Higgins

• Verlag: Polity
• Jahr: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781509553839
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Ciencias sociales
• Thema: Estudios de género

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Introduction: (Post-)Truth, Belief, Media, and Sexual Violence
• 1 Construction: #MeToo Media and Representations of Believability
• 2 Commodification: Buying and Selling Belief in the #MeToo Marketplace
• 3 Contest: Media, “Mob Justice,” and the Digitization of Doubt
• 4 Conditional: Kavanaughs, Karens, and the Struggle for Victimhood
• Conclusion: #BelieveWomen, Revisited
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Index
• End User License Agreement