Insurgent truth : Chelsea Manning and the politics of outsider truth-telling / Lida Maxwell.

"This book is about Chelsea Manning's leaking of government documents. Manning told the truth about war and a social order sustained by it. Her truth-telling also revealed the complicity of public and private in casting her - a non-gender-conforming individual - as an improper truth-teller. And Mann...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Maxwell, Lida (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Manning, Chelsea, > 1987- Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941. Rustin, Bayard, > 1912-1987. Lorde, Audre. WikiLeaks (Organization) Official secrets > United States. Leaks (Disclosure of information) > United States. Truth > Political aspects. Transgender women > United States > Biography. POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Comparative. PHILOSOPHY / Political. Leaks (Disclosure of information) Official secrets. Transgender women. United States.
Genre:	Biography.
Physical Description:	xvi, 202 pages ; 22 cm
Format:	Book

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Acknowledgments
Preface: Cassandra and Socrates
Chapter 1: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Truth-Telling
Chapter 2: Public, Private, Insurgent: What is Outsider Truth-Telling?
Chapter 3: Chelsea Manning as Transformative Truth-Teller
Chapter 4: Anonymity as Outsider Tactic: Woolf's "Anon" and Rustin's Quiet Persistence
Chapter 5: Telling the Truth, Changing the World: Woolf's War Photographs and Manning's Collateral Murder Video
Chapter 6: "I used to only know how to write memos": The World Building Power of Outsider Security
Notes
References
Index.