| Relational Remembering: Rethinking the Memory Wars Contributor(s): Campbell, Sue (Author) |
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ISBN: 0742532801 ISBN-13: 9780742532809 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $160.38 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2003 Annotation: 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. Visit our website for sample chapters! |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Self-help | Personal Growth - Memory Improvement - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition - Philosophy | Epistemology |
| Dewey: 153.12 |
| LCCN: 2003008534 |
| Series: Feminist Constructions |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.94" W x 9.26" (1.03 lbs) 238 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |