Description
Product ID: | 9781509553822 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Believability |
Subtitle: | Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt |
Authors: | Author: Kathryn Claire Higgins, Sarah Banet-Weiser |
Page Count: | 256 |
Subjects: | Society and culture: general, Society & culture: general |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
Imprint Name: | Polity Press |
Publisher Name: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-04-28 |