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UNINA9910466030703321 |
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Gilmore Leigh <1959-> |
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Tainted witness : why we doubt what women say about their lives / / Leigh Gilmore |
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New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2017 |
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Sex discrimination against women - Law and legislation |
Sex discrimination - Law and legislation |
Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration |
Witnesses - Public opinion |
Crime - Sex differences |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Previously issued in print: 2017. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 |
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In 1991, Anita Hill's testimony during Clarence Thomas's Senate confirmation hearing brought the problem of sexual harassment to a public audience. Although widely believed by women, Hill was defamed by conservatives and Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. The tainting of Hill and her testimony is part of a larger social history in which women find themselves caught up in a system that refuses to believe what they say. Hill's experience shows how a tainted witness is not who someone is, but what someone can become. Why are women |
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so often considered unreliable witnesses to their own experiences? How are women discredited in legal courts and in courts of public opinion? Why is women's testimony so often mired in controversies fueled by histories of slavery and colonialism? How do new feminist witnesses enter testimonial networks and disrupt doubt? Tainted Witness examines how gender, race, and doubt stick to women witnesses as their testimony circulates in search of an adequate witness. Judgment falls unequally upon women who bear witness, as well-known conflicts about testimonial authority in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries reveal. Women's testimonial accounts demonstrate both the symbolic potency of women's bodies and speech in the public sphere and the relative lack of institutional security and control to which they can lay claim. Each testimonial act follows in the wake of a long and invidious association of race and gender with lying that can be found to this day within legal courts and everyday practices of judgment, defining these locations as willfully unknowing and hostile to complex accounts of harm. Bringing together feminist, literary, and legal frameworks, Leigh Gilmore provides provocative readings of what happens when women's testimony is discredited. She demonstrates how testimony crosses jurisdictions, publics, and the unsteady line between truth and fiction in search of justice. |
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UNINA9910462956903321 |
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Williams Rebecca R. |
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Muhammad and the supernatural : medieval Arab views / / Rebecca R. Williams |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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0-203-37034-1 |
1-135-94078-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Routledge Studies in Classical Islam ; ; 3 |
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Supernatural |
Prophecy - Islam |
Miracles (Islam) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Muhammad and the Supernatural; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART I Sex; Introduction; 1 The light of prophecy: Christian, Jewish, and Pagan attempts; The Christian attempt; The Jewish attempt; The Pagan attempt; 2 ""God knows very well where to place His Message""; The unbelievers and signs from God; Heraclius and the proofs of prophethood; 3 Muhammad's conception and the supernatural; Abd al-Muttalib and the People of the Book; Authorial control of the supernatural in the sira; The supernatural and the will of God in the tafsir; Observations |
PART II PoliticsIntroduction; 4 Muhammad's public announcement and the absence of the supernatural; Prelude to the call; The call as response to a Quranic command - al-Tabari?; The call as response to a Quranic command - Ibn Kathir; Who was called; The public call as vehicle for promotion - Ibn Kathir and Ahmad b. Hanbal; 5 ""Who will aid me in this matter?""; Politicization of the supernatural - al-Tabari; Politicization of the supernatural - Ibn Kathir; 6 Abu Lahab: The villain; Abu Lahab and the publication of Muhammad's mission; Umm Jamil and the theme of divine protection |
Villains and the supernaturalObservations; PART III Betrayal; |
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Introduction; 7 Questions of character: Hatib's letter to the Meccans; The theme of forgiveness; Characters and archetypes; Moral lessons; 8 Hatib's story in the tafsir; Quran versus tafsir; Asbab al-nuzul or Quranic afterthought; A matter of time - Mecca, al-Hudaybiya, and the supernatural; 9 The necessity of the supernatural; Sira: structural analysis and the support for the supernatural; Tafsir: individual autonomy, traditional authority, and the supernatural; Observations; PART IV Wrath; Introduction |
10 Amir b. al-Tufayl and Arbad b. Qays: control and chaos in the SiraIbn Ishaq's version of events - the literary nature of divine wrath; Questions of chronology - Bir Mauna or the year of the delegations; Amir or Arbad? Character placement in the sira; 11 ""And God sent upon him a thunderbolt""; Nature and folk magic in the Quran and tafsir; Amir and Arbad: character placement in the tafsir; Asbab al-nuzul: rubies, gold, silver, and lightning; 12 Authorial control and the supernatural; Muhammad's power and God's wrath in the sira; Chaos and control: the supernatural in the tafsir |
ObservationsConclusion: the significance of the supernatural; Bibliography; Index |
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Mu?ammad and the Supernatural: Medieval Arab Views examines the element of the supernatural (or miracle stories) in the life of the Prophet Mu?ammad as depicted in two genres: prophetic biography (s?ra) and Qur??n exegesis (tafs?r). |
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