The #MeToo movement has created more opportunities for women to speak up about sexual assault and harassment. But we are also living in a time when -fake news- and -alternative facts- call into question the very nature of truth. For questions about sexual violence, who do we believe and why? And how do the answers change when the very idea of -truth- is in question?
This troubling paradox is at the heart of this book. The convergence of the #MeToo movement and the crisis of post-truth is used to explore the experiences of women and people of color whose credibility around issues of sexual violence is often in doubt. Offering a feminist re-thinking of -post-truth-, Banet-Weiser and Higgins shift the lens from truth to -believability- to investigate how the gendered and racialized logics of this concept are defined and contested within media culture. Drawing on analysis of a wide variety of media texts and products including film, news articles, social media campaigns, and wea
