Relational Remembering: Rethinking the Memory Wars (Feminist Constructions) - Softcover

Campbell, Sue

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074253281X ISBN 13: 9780742532816

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003

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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 a word merchant. Getting stories into the world is what she's all about. She's both a writer and a book marketer. She cohosts The Mommy's Pen Podcast with her eleven-year-old daughter where they talk about a dissect stories. She lives with her husband, two daughters, five chickens, and a super messy rabbit on a quasi-urban farm in Portland, Oregon. Visit her online at suecampbellbooks.com.

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• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 074253281X
• ISBN 13: 9780742532816
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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