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Relational Remembering
Rethinking the Memory Wars
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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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Copyright year
2003
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-3281-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-585-48278-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
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1
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Acknowledgments No access
1 Constructing the "Memory Wars" No access Pages 1 - 24
2 Respecting Rememberers No access Pages 25 - 46
3 Framing Women's Testimony: Narrative Position and Memory Authority No access Pages 47 - 68
4 The Subjects of Therapy: Revisiting Trauma and Recovery No access Pages 69 - 98
5 "The Feeling of Identity Is Quite Wanting ... in the True Woman": Models of Memory and Moral Character No access Pages 99 - 128
6 Suggestibility, Misdesign, and Social Skepticism No access Pages 129 - 152
7 The Costs of a Stereotype: Protecting Women's Confidential Records No access Pages 153 - 178
8 A Singular and Representative Life: Personal Memory and Systematic Harm No access Pages 179 - 202
