LEADER 04558nam 2200637 450 001 9910792669803321 005 20240102235755.0 010 $a0-231-54344-1 024 7 $a10.7312/gilm17714 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4759773 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001666821 035 $a(DE-B1597)481766 035 $a(OCoLC)966491393 035 $a(OCoLC)979752205 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231543446 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4759773 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11316680 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL988417 035 $a(CKB)3710000000982318 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000982318 100 $a20161223h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTainted witness$b[electronic resource] $ewhy we doubt what women say about their lives /$fLeigh Gilmore 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2017. 210 4$d©2017 215 $a236 p 225 1 $aGender and Culture 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 $a0-231-17714-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Tainted Witness in Testimonial Networks --$t1. Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Search for an Adequate Witness --$t2. Jurisdictions and Testimonial Networks: Rigoberta Menchú --$t3. Neoliberal Life Narrative: From Testimony to Self-Help --$t4. Witness by Proxy: Girls in Humanitarian Storytelling --$t5. Tainted Witness in Law and Literature: Nafissatou Diallo and Jamaica Kincaid --$tConclusion: Testimonial Publics-#BlackLivesMatter and Claudia Rankine's Citizen --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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 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. 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