Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 238
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-7425-3280-9 • Hardback • October 2003 • $162.00 • (£125.00)
978-0-7425-3281-6 • Paperback • October 2003 • $54.00 • (£42.00)
978-0-585-48278-1 • eBook • October 2003 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
Sue Campbell is associate professor of philosophy and women's studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the author of Interpreting the Personal (1997) and co-editor of Racism and Philosophy (1999).
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
Sue Campbell provides an insightful and much-needed analysis of the current debates surrounding recovered memories. Her lucidly argued position is essential reading for both therapists and theorists grappling with this contentious subject.....
— Tony Suzuki Laidlaw
Relational Remembering is a compelling, persuasively argued book that brings a welcome philosophical sophistication to recent debates in the so-called 'memory wars.' Sue Campbell argues that our dependence on others in the construction of narrativesof our past, far from undermining the reliability of our memories, is necessary for 'good remembering.' Philosophers, cognitive psychologists, therapists, feminist theorists—indeed, everyone interested in the politics of memory—will benefit from reading this fascinating study of memory and identity...
— Susan J. Brison, author of Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self
In Relational Remembering Sue Campbell extends to the contentious terrain of the 'memory wars' the subtle and lucid account of subjectivity that she articulated in Interpreting the Personal. This extraordinary achievement shows that seeking the truth about what we feel or about what we seem to remember requires, not abstraction from, but politically informed attention to the social contexts in which those feelings and memories take shape....
— Naomi Scheman, professor of philosophy and women's studies, University of Minnesota
This is an especially useful text for those interested in philosophically interdisciplinary projects. . . . Relational Remembering presents an important feminist voice in the arguments over the unity and stability of memory. Campbell's text is critical, important, and quite provocative. Highly recommended....
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An engaging and intelligent book, Relational Remembering is a probing analysis of the false memory movement written by an insightful and sophisticated philosopher of science. Of interest to a wide audience, Relational Remembering should be required reading by all those who claim—or would like to claim—expertise on memory for trauma....
— Jennifer J. Freyd
• Winner, Winner of the 2003 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award; CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2004