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Believability Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt

9781509553815

Believability Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt

  • ISBN 13:

    9781509553815

  • ISBN 10:

    1509553819

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 06/26/2023
  • Publisher: Polity

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Summary

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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