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Believability : Sexual Violence Media And The Politics Of Doubt
Paperback Edition: 1
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.
Pages : 256
Publisher : Polity Press
Publication date : 2023-08-02
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in the UK, Social Sciences, Sociology, Gender Studies, Gender Groups