Relational Remembering

Rethinking the Memory Wars

By:

Sue Campbell

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Hardback

Series:

Feminist Constructions

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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.

Author Biography:

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).

Release date NZ

October 28th, 2003

Author

Sue Campbell

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

238

Series

Feminist Constructions

Dimensions

157x236x22

ISBN-13

9780742532809

Product ID

5323374

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