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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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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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- 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
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