Relational Remembering - Rethinking the Memory Wars

This book offers a feminist philosophical analysis of contemporary public skepticism 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.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Constructing the "memory wars"
Chapter 2 Respecting rememberers
Chapter 3 Framing women's testimony: narrative position and memory authority
Chapter 4 The subjects of therapy: Revisiting Trauma and Recovery
Chapter 5 "The feeling of identity is quite wanting...in the true woman": Models of memory and moral character
Chapter 6 Suggestibility, misdesign, and social skepticism
Chapter 7 The costs of a stereotype: Defending women's confidential records
Chapter 8 A singular and representative life: Personal memory and systematic harms

Product details

• Authors: Sue Campbell
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.2003
• EAN: 9780742532816
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-3281-6
• No. of pages: 238
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 227 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 354 g
• Series: Feminist Constructions
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; memory, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition and cognitive psychology