Higgins Kathryn Claire - Believability Sexual Violence Media And The Politics Of Doubt - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: The # Me Too 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 # Me Too 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.
Title: Believability Sexual Violence Media And The Politics Of Doubt
Author(s): Higgins Kathryn Claire
Publisher: John Wiley And Sons Ltd
Barcode: 9781509553822
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 6/26/2023
Category: Society & Culture: General