TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gilmore,Leigh
TI  - Tainted witness: why we doubt what women say about their lives 
T2  - Gender and culture
SN  - 9780231543446
AV  - K3243 .T356 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Sex discrimination against women
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Sex discrimination
KW  - Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration
KW  - Witnesses
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Crime
KW  - Sex differences
KW  - Women
KW  - Crimes against
KW  - False testimony
KW  - Feminist theory
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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