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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 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.

Guatemala --- United States --- Sex discrimination against women --- Sex discrimination --- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration. --- Witnesses --- Crime --- Testimony --- Evidence (Law) --- Eyewitness identification --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Equal rights amendments --- Law and legislation. --- Public opinion. --- Sex differences. --- United States of America --- Racism --- Sexually transgressive behavior --- Legislation --- Book --- Intersectionality

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Human rights --- Social law. Labour law --- Discrimination --- Equality before the law --- Labor laws and legislation --- Egalité devant la loi --- Travail --- Law and legislation --- Droit --- Harcèlement --- Victimes --- Égalité devant la loi --- Droit du travail --- Lutte contre --- 342.7 --- -Discrimination --- -344.01133 --- Oa5.i --- Bias --- Interpersonal relations --- Minorities --- Toleration --- Employees --- Employment law --- Industrial relations --- Labor law --- Labor standards (Labor law) --- Work --- Working class --- Industrial laws and legislation --- Social legislation --- Grondwettelijke rechten en vrijheden. Fundamentele rechten --- -Legal status, laws, etc. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- 342.7 Grondwettelijke rechten en vrijheden. Fundamentele rechten --- Egalité devant la loi --- European Union --- Europe --- 344.01133 --- Equal rights --- Civil rights --- Justice --- Equal rights amendments --- Discrimination - Law and legislation - European Union countries --- Labor laws and legislation - European Union countries --- Race --- Nationality --- Disability --- Gender --- International --- Age --- Anti-discrimination laws --- Reference work --- Religion --- Romantic and sexual orientation --- Legislation --- Book --- Civil status --- Harcèlement --- Égalité devant la loi

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The role that gender plays in determining the experience of those caught up in armed conflict has long been overlooked. Moreover, the extent to which gender influences the international legal regime designed to address the humanitarian problems arising from armed conflict has similarly been ignored. In the early 1990s, prompted by extensive media coverage of the rape of women during the conflict in Bosnia Herzegovina, the international community was forced to critically examine the capacity of international law to respond to such crimes. The prevalence of sexual violence, is, however, merely one aspect of the distinctive impact of conflict on women. Although a range of factors influence the way individual women experience armed conflict, the endemic gender discrimination that exists in all societies is a common theme: from Cambodia, where women land-mine victims are less likely to receive treatment for their injuries than are men; to South Africa, where women widowed during the Apartheid years have become outcasts in their own society. To date, the extent to which international law addresses the myriad of ways in which women are affected by armed conflict has received little attention. This work takes the experience of women of armed conflict, matches it with existing provisions of international law, and investigates reasons for the silence of the latter in relation to these events for women. It is the first broad-based critique of international humanitarian law from a gender perspective. The contribution of the United Nations, through its focus on human rights, to improving the protection of women in armed conflict is also considered. The authors underscore the need for new approaches to the issue of women and armed conflict, and canvass a range of options for moving forward.

Humanitarian law. --- Sex discrimination against women --- Women and war. --- Humanitarian law --- Women and war --- Treaties, International --- International Law --- Law, Politics & Government --- War and women --- War --- Women and the military --- Discrimination against women --- Subordination of women --- Women, Discrimination against --- Feminism --- Sex discrimination --- Women's rights --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Humanitarian conventions --- International humanitarian law --- War (International law) --- Equal rights amendments --- Law and legislation. --- Law and legislation --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- International law --- Human rights --- Criminology. Victimology --- Polemology --- Gender --- Sexually transgressive behavior --- Rape --- Refugees --- Book

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The persecution of people in Africa for their assumed homosexual orientation has received considerable media coverage in recent years. However, much of the analysis has criticized African leadership and culture without considering local nuances, historical factors and external influences. Based on pioneering historical research and engagement with lgbti and HIV/AIDS activism, this book provides a sympathetic overview of the issues and a hope outlook on the potential of sexual rights for all. "The persecution of people in Africa on the basis of their assumed or perceived homosexual orientation has received considerable coverage in the popular media in recent years. Gay-bashing by political and religious figures in Zimbabwe and Gambia; draconian new laws against lesbians and gays and their supporters in Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda; and the imprisonment and extortion of gay men in Senegal and Cameroon have all rightly sparked international condemnation. However, much of the analysis thus far has been highly critical of African leadership and culture without considering local nuances, historical factors and external influences that are contributing to the problem. Such commentary also overlooks grounds for optimism in the struggle for sexual rights and justice in Africa, not just for sexual minorities but for the majority population as well. Based on pioneering research on the history of homosexualities and engagement with current lgbti and HIV/AIDS activism, Marc Epprecht provides a sympathetic overview of the issues at play and a hopeful outlook on the potential of sexual rights for all."--Page 4 of cover.

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