Relational Remembering: Rethinking the Memory Wars (Feminist Constructions) - Softcover
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Tracing the impact of the 'memory wars' on science and culture, Relational Remembering offers a vigorous philosophical challenge to the contemporary skepticism about memory that is their legacy. Campbell's work provides a close conceptual analysis of the strategies used to challenge women's memories, particularly those meant to provoke a general social alarm about suggestibility. Sue Campbell argues that we cannot come to an adequate understanding of the nature and value of memory through a distorted view of rememberers. The harmful stereotypes of women's passivity and instability that have repopulated discussions of abuse have led many theorists to regard the social dimensions of remembering only negatively, as a threat or contaminant to memory integrity. Such models of memory cannot help us grasp the nature of harms linked to oppression, as these models imply that changed group understandings of the past are incompatible with the integrity of personal memory. Campbell uses the false memory debates to defend a feminist reconceptualization of personal memory as relational, social, and subject to politics. Memory is analyzed as a complex of cognitive abilities and social/narrative activities where one's success or failure as a rememberer is both affected by one's social location and has profound ramifications for one's cultural status as a moral agent.
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Sue Campbell is associate professor of philosophy and women's studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the author of Interpreting the Personal (1997) and co-editor of Racism and Philosophy (1999).
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This text offers a feminist philosophical analysis of contemporary public scepticism about women's memories of past harm. It concentrates primarily on writings associated with the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF), founded in 1992 as a lobby for parents whose adult children have accused them of some abuse after a period of having not remembered it. FMSF has been identified as the group most directly responsible for encouraging what has become an unprecedented distrust of alleged victims' memories of physical abuse. Campbell uses these false memory debates as an opportunity to explore how people may be politically undermined when their memory competencies are challenged, and how our theories of memory must change to reflect this reality. She argues that the casting of current controversies about memory as theoretical questions about the nature and reliability of mental processes and about whether we can find scientific support for recovered versus false memories, covers up and displaces what is also a public contest about the cultural status of women as rememberers and, therefore, as moral agents. This text offers a feminist philosophical analysis of contemporary public skepticism about women's memories of past harm. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780742532816
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