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The lynching of language : gender, politics, and power in the Hill-Thomas hearings / edited by Sandra L. Ragan ... [et al.] ; foreword by Julia T. Wood.

Title
The lynching of language : gender, politics, and power in the Hill-Thomas hearings / edited by Sandra L. Ragan ... [et al.] ; foreword by Julia T. Wood.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996.

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Additional Authors
Ragan, Sandra L.
Description
xxiii, 293 p.; 24 cm.
Alternative Title
Gender, politics, and power in the Hill-Thomas hearings
Subject
  • Hill, Anita
  • Law > Political aspects
  • Sexual harassment of women > Law and legislation > United States
  • Thomas, Clarence, 1948-
  • Truthfulness and falsehood
  • United States. Supreme Court > Selection and appointment
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword : continuing the conversation about Hill and Thomas / Julia T. Wood -- Introduction to a communication event : the Hill-Thomas hearings / Sandra L. Ragan ... [et al.] -- Analyzing the testimony from a legal evidentiary perspective : using judicial language injudiciously / Shirley A. Wiegand -- The doing of gender through cross-examination / Christina S. Beck, Sandra L. Ragan, and Lynda Lee Kaid -- Sex, race, and politics : an intercultural communication approach to the Hill-Thomas hearings / Cynthia S. Roper, Mike Chanslor, and Dianne G. Bystrom -- Who is Anita Hill? A discourse-centered inquiry into the concept of self in American folk psychology / Erica Verrillo -- Impression management mismatch on Capital Hill : the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas confrontation / Dale G. Leathers -- Looking for verbal deception in Clarence Thomas's testimony / Curtis D. Lebaron -- Detection of deception in the Hill-Thomas hearings : an analysis of nonverbal behavior / Valerie Cryer Mckay -- Believability : narratives and relational messages in the strategies of Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas / Judith K. Bowker -- Tracking reactions : audience evaluations of the Hill-Thomas hearings / Lynda Lee Kaid, John Tedesco, and Clifford A. Jones -- Telling the truth : the rhetoric of consistency and credibility in the Hill-Thomas hearings / Thomas J. Darwin -- The pragmatics of sexual harrassment : two devices for creating a "hostile environment" / Darrin Hicks and Phillip J. Glenn -- "Giving" voice to sexual harrassment : dialogues in the aftermath of the Hill-Thomas hearings / Leda M. Cooks, Claudia L. Hale, and Sue Dewine -- Beyond the hearings : the continuing effects of Hill vs. Thomas on women and men, the workplace, and politics / Dianne G. Bystrom.
ISBN
  • 0252021266 (acid-free paper)
  • 0252065174 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
^^^95032458^
OCLC
32778896
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