Gilmore Tainted Witness

Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-231-54344-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Reihe: Gender and Culture Series

How doubt attaches to women's testimony.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gilmore, Leigh

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Allgemeines Verfahrens-, Zivilprozess- und Insolvenzrecht Allgemeines Prozessrecht, Kostenrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Tainted Witness in Testimonial Networks
1. Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Search for an Adequate Witness
2. Jurisdictions and Testimonial Networks: Rigoberta Menchú
3. Neoliberal Life Narrative: From Testimony to Self-Help
4. Witness by Proxy: Girls in Humanitarian Storytelling
5. Tainted Witness in Law and Literature: Nafissatou Diallo and Jamaica Kincaid
Conclusion: Testimonial Publics—#BlackLivesMatter and Claudia Rankine's Citizen
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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. She was Dorothy Cruickshank Backstrand Chair of Gender and Women's Studies at Scripps College, professor of English at the Ohio State University, and has held visiting appointments at Brown University, Harvard Divinity School, Northeastern University, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of California, Berkeley.