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Book Tainted Witness

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  • Author : Leigh Gilmore
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2017-01-17
  • ISBN : 0231543441
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Tainted Witness written by Leigh Gilmore and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Tainted

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  • Author : Cauvery Madhavan
  • Publisher : Hoperoad
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 9781916467187
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Tainted written by Cauvery Madhavan and published by Hoperoad. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Base on the true story of the Irish Connaught Rangers in India and a story of the Anglo Indian community.

Book Tainted

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  • Author : Brooke Morgan
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2009-11-12
  • ISBN : 0061986941
  • Pages : 447 pages

Download or read book Tainted written by Brooke Morgan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooke Morgan makes her dazzling debut with Tainted—a novel of unrelenting suspense that immediately rockets her into the upper echelons alongside Joy Fielding, Tana French, Mary Higgins Clark, and other masters of everyday terror. Evocatively set against the seemingly placid backdrop of Cape Code, Tainted twists and turns and constantly surprises with the story of a single mother, her sensitive daughter, and the mysterious man who takes over their lives. Shocking, unexpected, and absolutely riveting, nothing in Tainted is quite what it seems.

Book Tainted Tap

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  • Author : Katrinell M. Davis
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2021-04-06
  • ISBN : 1469662116
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Tainted Tap written by Katrinell M. Davis and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years demanding action from their city and state officials. Complaints from the city's predominantly African American residents were ignored until independent researchers confirmed dangerously elevated blood lead levels among Flint children and in the city's tap water. Despite a 2017 federal court ruling in favor of Flint residents who had demanded mitigation, those efforts have been incomplete at best. Assessing the challenges that community groups faced in their attempts to advocate for improved living conditions, Tainted Tap offers a rich analysis of conditions and constraints that created the Flint water crisis. Katrinell Davis contextualizes the crisis in Flint's long and troubled history of delivering essential services, the consequences of regional water-management politics, and other forms of systemic neglect that impacted the working-class community's health and well-being. Using ethnographic and empirical evidence from a range of sources, Davis also sheds light on the forms of community action that have brought needed changes to this underserved community.

Book Under Rose Tainted Skies

Download or read book Under Rose Tainted Skies written by Louise Gornall and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenage girl must grapple with her agoraphobia as romance blossoms with her new neighbor in this YA novel—“a poignant work, infused with humor” (School Library Journal). Seventeen-year-old Norah Dean hasn’t left the house in years. Her agoraphobia and OCD are so intense that when groceries are left on the porch, she can’t even step out to get them. Struggling to snag the bags with a stick, she meets Luke. He’s sweet and funny, and he just caught her fishing for groceries. Because of course he did. Norah can’t leave the house, but can she let someone in? As their friendship grows deeper, Norah realizes Luke deserves a normal girl. One who can lie on the front lawn and look up at the stars. One who isn’t so screwed up. Readers themselves will fall in love with Norah in this deeply engaging portrait of a teen struggling to find the strength to face her demons.

Book Tainted Trail

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  • Author : Wen Spencer
  • Publisher : Roc
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780451458872
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book Tainted Trail written by Wen Spencer and published by Roc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While searching for a kidnapped hiker in Umatilla National Park, Ukiah Oregon, an enigmatic tracker possessing remarkable heightened senses who had been raised by wolves, stumbles upon the legend of a young boy who mysteriously vanished in 1933, a story that may hold the key to his own hidden past. By the author of Alien Taste. Original.

Book Tainted Truth

Download or read book Tainted Truth written by Cynthia Crossen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-01-25 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Business Week's top books, this work examines how the distortion of information by the media, politicians, academics, and business curtails the public's access to the truth. Crossen shows how the desire for profits, for influence, or for increased funding has created an information industry that has only a glancing relationship with objective truth.

Book The Tainted Desert

Download or read book The Tainted Desert written by Valerie L. Kuletz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, nuclear testing in America's southwest was shrouded in secrecy, with images gradually made public of mushroom clouds blooming over the desert. Now, another nuclear crisis looms over this region: the storage of tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste. Tainted Desert maps the nuclear landscapes of the US inter-desert southwest, a land sacrificed to the Cold-War arms race and nuclear energy policy.

Book Tainted

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  • Author : Morgan L. Busse
  • Publisher : Soul Chronicles
  • Release : 2016-04-15
  • ISBN : 9781621840671
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Tainted written by Morgan L. Busse and published by Soul Chronicles. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kat Bloodmayne is one of the first women to attend the a prestigious science academy but she has a secret. Kat can twist the natural laws of life, but every time she does it kills a part of her soul.

Book Tainted Souls and Painted Faces

Download or read book Tainted Souls and Painted Faces written by Amanda Anderson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prostitute, adulteress, unmarried woman who engages in sexual relations, victim of seduction—the Victorian "fallen woman" represents a complex array of stigmatized conditions. Amanda Anderson here reconsiders the familiar figure of the fallen woman within the context of mid-Victorian debates over the nature of selfhood, gender, and agency. In richly textured readings of works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, among others, she argues that depictions of fallen women express profound cultural anxieties about the very possibility of self-control and traditional moral responsibility.

Book Tainted

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  • Author : Lexy Timms
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-07-21
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Tainted written by Lexy Timms and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love… Brady Simmons has found her groove in her new home in England. Her boyfriend, James Gilmore, is supportive of her following her dream to be a famous painter. When she gets a call that demands she go home to Miami to deal with a fire at her gallery, she has to leave James behind. She runs into her ex-boyfriend, Levi Duncan, who seems to be everywhere. She chalks it up to coincidence until there is another fire at her apartment. James is worried and insists she stay away from Levi. Suddenly everything Brady has worked so hard for is put on the line. Is everything she touches tainted? To escape fear you have to go through it, not around it. Toxic Touch Series Book 1 – Noxious Book 2 – Lethal Book 3 – Willful Book 4 - Tainted Book 5 - Craved Search Terms: contemporary romance, billionaire obsession, contemporary romance and sex, romance billionaire series, new adult, romance, true love, coming of age, overcoming, women's fiction, drugs, fake girlfriend, billionaire, Alpha male romance, Alpha Bad Boy, bad boy, hot romance, hot and steamy, happily ever after, new, bbw, love, sexy, sport romance, hired wife, sweet love story, romance love, romance love triangle, new adult romance, holiday, holiday romance, love and life, golf, billionaire romance, dark romance, romantic comedy, saga, women's saga, workplace romance, BBW, big beautiful women

Book Tainted ICE

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  • Author : Derrick Taylor
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-01-21
  • ISBN : 9780615934396
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Tainted ICE written by Derrick Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling memoir, Federal Agent Derrick Taylor tells the story of his twenty-five-year career with the United States Department of Homeland Security. Over the course of his career, Taylor became a top federal agent for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He worked as a Fugitive Apprehension Officer, tracking down and arresting hundreds of hard-core violent criminals. He managed a Prosecution Unit that convicted over one thousand criminal aliens. He was awarded the Medal of Valor from the Department of Homeland Security, the Secretary?s Award for Excellence, and the City of Los Angeles Medal of Honor. In 1997, while serving a Federal Warrant of Deportation, Taylor was shot five times by a gang member . . . and lived to tell about it. But throughout his illustrious career he also witnessed countless cases of corruption and discrimination within the Department of Homeland Security. Could anything be done to change the culture and expose the unfairness? Taylor decided his answer was yes. This book chronicles Taylor?s varied and intriguing career and personal life, culminating in his highly charged lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, and its surprising outcome.

Book Tainted

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  • Author : Riley Edwards
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-11-30
  • ISBN : 9781951567224
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Tainted written by Riley Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Three Tainted Teas

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  • Author : Lynn Cahoon
  • Publisher : Kitchen Witch Mysteries
  • Release : 2022-04-26
  • ISBN : 149673033X
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Three Tainted Teas written by Lynn Cahoon and published by Kitchen Witch Mysteries. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon returns with the third installment of her enchanting Kitchen Witch Mysteries starring aspiring witch and culinary entrepreneur Mia Malone, who must dispel a deadly plot to wreck her clients’ wedding! Aspiring witch and culinary entrepreneur, Mia Malone, must dispel a deadly plot to wreck her clients’ wedding in this charming continuation of New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon’s Kitchen Witch Mystery series. Business is bubbling at Mia’s catering service and cooking school, Mia’s Morsels, but toil and trouble are not far behind. Mia just accepted her toughest gig yet: last-minute wedding planner for Magic Springs’ own Romeo and Juliet. Though the small town is fairly accepting of magic, two families have been locked in a vicious feud spanning generations. Unfortunately for both families, they’re about to become in-laws! Amethyst and Tok are excited to wed in a few weeks and somehow Mia must ensure the event is flawless. But when she goes to pick up paperwork from the couple’s previous wedding planner, Mia discovers the woman murdered in an apparent attempt to stop the contentious union. Now, not only is Mia a prime suspect, as the new planner she may also be the killer’s next target. Backed by her squad, her charms—literal and figurative—and a protective amulet from her Grans, it’s up to Mia to save the star-crossed couple’s wedding, her professional reputation…and maybe even her life!

Book The Tainted Source

Download or read book The Tainted Source written by John Laughland and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ideology is sweeping Europe and the world which threatens democracy and the rule of law. The post-national ideology, which posits that nation-states are no longer capable of running their own affairs in a modern, interdependent economy, confuses the constitution of a state with the power of its government, and ignores the importance of the sense of community essential to any democratic debate. A rigorous synthesis of historical and philosophical arguments, THE TAINTED SOURCE is a powerful appeal in favour of the constitutional foundations of the liberal order. Post-national structures - multinational companies, 'region-states' and supranational organisations such as the European Union - are corrosive of liberal values, to such an extent that John Laughland makes it devastatingly clear that the post-national ideology formed a crucial core of Nazi economic and political thinking. Like the European ideology of today, it was predicted on dissolving the nation-state and the liberal order.

Book The Tainted Muse

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  • Author : Robert Sanford Brustein
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2009-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300115768
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book The Tainted Muse written by Robert Sanford Brustein and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a masterful and engaging exploration of both Shakespeare's works and his age. Concentrating on six recurring prejudices in Shakespeare's plays--such as misogyny, elitism, distrust of effeminacy, and racism--Robert Brustein examines how Shakespeare and his contemporaries treated them. More than simply a thematic study, the book reveals a playwright constantly exploiting and exploring his own personal stances. These prejudices, Brustein finds, are not unchanging; over time they vary in intensity and treatment. Shakespeare is an artist who invariably reflects the predilections of his age and yet almost always manages to transcend them. Brustein considers the whole of Shakespeare's plays, from the early histories to the later romances, though he gives special attention to Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and The Tempest. Drawing comparisons to plays by Marlowe, Middleton, and Marston, Brustein investigates how Shakespeare's contemporaries were preoccupied with similar themes and how these different artists treated the current prejudices in their own ways. Rather than confining Shakespeare to his age, this book has the wonderful quality of illuminating both what he shared with his time and what is unique about his approach.

Book Tainted Evidence

Download or read book Tainted Evidence written by Robert Daley and published by Vision. This book was released on 1994-03 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating police story filled with unrelenting drama, from the author of A Faint Cold Fear. When a murder suspect guns down five cops in a police raid, New York City's long-simmering racial unrest explodes in turmoil. Caught in the middle, Assistant DA Karen Henning falls for her star witness, and the results are shattering.