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Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives
Leigh Gilmore
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Description for Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives
Hardback. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ1; LAQG; LNFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 238 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
In 1991, Anita Hill's testimony during Clarence Thomas's Senate confirmation hearing brought the problem of sexual harassment to a public audience. Although widely believed by women, Hill was defamed by conservatives and Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. The tainting of Hill and her testimony is part of a larger social history in which women find themselves caught up in a system that refuses to believe what they say. Hill's experience shows how a tainted witness is not who someone is, but what someone can become. Why are women so often considered unreliable witnesses to their own experiences? How ... Read more
In 1991, Anita Hill's testimony during Clarence Thomas's Senate confirmation hearing brought the problem of sexual harassment to a public audience. Although widely believed by women, Hill was defamed by conservatives and Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. The tainting of Hill and her testimony is part of a larger social history in which women find themselves caught up in a system that refuses to believe what they say. Hill's experience shows how a tainted witness is not who someone is, but what someone can become. Why are women so often considered unreliable witnesses to their own experiences? How ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Gender and Culture Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231177146
SKU
V9780231177146
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About Leigh Gilmore
Leigh Gilmore, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College, is the author of The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony (2001) and Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Women's Self-Representation (1994) and coeditor of Autobiography and Postmodernism (1994). She has published articles in Feminist Studies, Signs, Women's Studies Quarterly, and Biography, among others, and in numerous collections. ... Read more
Reviews for Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives
In this moving and transformative text, Leigh Gilmore explores the different ways that women's testimonies are made incredible. With patience and care, Gilmore explores how testimonies circulate, how they keep open histories that have yet to be resolved, and how testimonies become tainted because of who as well as what they point to. This insightful book gives testimony a feminist ... Read more