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Leigh Gilmore provides a new account of #MeToo that reveals how storytelling by survivors propelled the call for sexual justice beyond courts and high-profile cases into a global movement. She reframes #MeToo as a breakthrough moment within a longer history of feminist thought and activism.

When more than 150 women testified in 2018 to the sexual abuse inflicted on them by Dr. Larry Nassar when they were young, competitive gymnasts, they exposed and transformed the conditions that shielded their violation, including the testimonial disadvantages that cluster at the site of gender, youth, and race. In Witnessing Girlhood, Leigh Gilmore and Elizabeth Marshall argue that they also joined a long tradition of autobiographical writing ...

Charting a history of how women use life narrative to transform conditions of suffering, silencing, and injustice into accounts that enjoin ethical response, the authors further readers' capacity to engage ethically with representations of vulnerability, childhood, and collective witness.

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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...

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Memoirs in which trauma takes a major -- or the major -- role challenge the limits of autobiography. Leigh Gilmore presents a series of "limit-cases" -- texts that combine elements of autobiography, fiction, biography, history, and theory while representing trauma and the self -- and demonstrates how and why their authors swerve from the formal constraints of autobiography when the representation of trauma coincides with self-representation. G...

How doubt attaches to women's testimony.

Memoirs in which trauma takes a major-or the major-role challenge the limits of autobiography. Leigh Gilmore presents a series of "limit-cases"-texts that combine elements of autobiography, fiction, biography, history, and theory while representing...