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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.
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Believability, Sarah Banet-Weiser
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023
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- Titel
- Believability
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Sarah Banet-Weiser
- Verlag
- Polity Press
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 256
- ISBN10
- 1509553827
- ISBN13
- 9781509553822
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Lehrbücher, Universitätslehrbücher
- Bewertung
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- Beschreibung
- 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.