Relational Remembering
Subtitle: Rethinking the Memory Wars (Feminist Constructions)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: October 28, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780742532809
Subjects: Memory; Social Psychology; False memory syndrome; Self-Help; Psychology; Philosophy; Women; Cognitive Psychology; Personal Growth - Memory Improvement; Philosophy / Epistemology; Epistemology; Autobiographical memory
Description: "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. 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 uses the false memory debates to defend a feminist reconceptualization of personal memory as relational, social, and subject to politics."--Jacket.