Gilmore, Leigh,  1959- <br/><br/>
Tainted witness :  why we doubt what women say about their lives / 
Leigh Gilmore. 
 - New York :  Columbia University Press,  (c)2017. 
 - 1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) 
 - Gender and culture .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> In 1991, Anita Hill brought testimony and scandal into America's living rooms during televised Senate confirmation hearings in which she detailed the sexual harassment she had suffered at the hands of Clarence Thomas. The male Senate Judiciary Committee refused to take Hill seriously, and the veracity of Hill's claims were sullied in the mainstream media. Hill was defamed as #x93;a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty," and Thomas was confirmed. The tainting of Hill and her testimony are part of a larger social history in which women find themselves caught up in a system that refuses to believ. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780231543446 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation.<br/>Sex discrimination--Law and legislation.<br/>Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration.<br/>Witnesses--Public opinion.<br/>Crime--Sex differences.<br/>Women--Crimes against--Law and legislation--Public opinion.<br/>False testimony.<br/>Feminist theory.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>K3243  / .T356 2017