Dr Kathryn Claire Higgins

Book

• Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt Banet-Weiser, Sarah and Higgins, Kathryn Claire. 2023. Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 9781509553815

Book Section

• The Post-Truth of Rape Higgins, Kathryn Claire and Banet-Weiser, Sarah. 2024. The Post-Truth of Rape. In: Jayson Harsin, ed. Re-thinking Mediations of Post-truth Politics and Trust: Globality, Culture, Affect. New York: Routledge, pp. 43-60. ISBN 9781032484198
• Cruel benevolence: vulnerable menaces, menacing vulnerabilities and the white male vigilante trope Higgins, Kathryn Claire. 2023. Cruel benevolence: vulnerable menaces, menacing vulnerabilities and the white male vigilante trope. In: Karen Boyle and Susan Berridge, eds. The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 84-94. ISBN 9781032061368

Article

• Man enough to kill, boy enough to cry: Liminality and irresolvability in Adolescence Higgins, Kathryn Claire. 2025. Man enough to kill, boy enough to cry: Liminality and irresolvability in Adolescence. European Journal of Cultural Studies, ISSN 1367-5494
• From victimhood to victimcould: Hypothetical injury and the 'criminalization' of Donald Trump Higgins, Kathryn Claire. 2025. From victimhood to victimcould: Hypothetical injury and the 'criminalization' of Donald Trump. European Journal of Cultural Studies, ISSN 1367-5494
• Liars, scammers and cheats: con(fident) women and post-authentic femininities on television Banet-Weiser, Sarah and Higgins, Kathryn Claire. 2025. Liars, scammers and cheats: con(fident) women and post-authentic femininities on television. Journal of Gender Studies, 34(6), pp. 774-785. ISSN 0958-9236