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A feminist introduction to emerging philosophical understandings of gaslighting. Originating in a 1938 play, the term gaslighting has become part of our everyday vocabulary. But do we truly know what it means? This collection of new and foundational essays explores concepts and experiences of gaslighting from philosophical perspectives. Contributors build on longstanding feminist analyses of the relations among knowledge, affect, and power to consider how gaslighting can work at not only individual but also structural levels to undermine its targets. In examining racial, epistemological, medical, affective, political, and other forms of gaslighting, the book helps illuminate contemporary power relations and provides urgently needed tools for further research in and beyond the field of philosophy.

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Author:   Kelly Oliver ,  Hanna Kiri Gunn ,  Holly Longair
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9798855801309

Pages:   298
Publication Date:   01 March 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Hanna Kiri Gunn and Holly Longair Part I: What Is Gaslighting? 1. Structural Gaslighting Nora Berenstain 2. Theorizing Structural Gaslighting as Gaslighting Holly Longair 3. Gaslighting and Social Power: Mills, Medina, and Moi on Knowledge and the Social Imaginary Sabrina L. Hom 4. Moral Gaslighting Kate Manne 5. Affective Gaslighting Kelly Oliver 6. Anger Gaslighting as Affective Injustice Shiloh Whitney Part II: Experiences of Gaslighting 7. Allies Behaving Badly: Gaslighting as Epistemic Injustice Veronica Ivy [Rachel McKinnon] 8. Racial Gaslighting Angelique M. Davis and Rose Ernst 9. Varieties of Gaslighting Cynthia A. Stark 10. Giving an Account of the Harms of Medical Gaslighting Lilyana Levy 11. Structural Gaslighting: Hurricane María and Recovery in Puerto Rico Taína M. Figueroa List of Contributors Index

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"""A thoughtfully constructed volume on a crucially important and timely topic. The book brings conceptual clarity to the hugely popular term gaslighting and offers real philosophical advances from a variety of perspectives, helping us make sense of both our experiences and the wider culture. It will be of use to feminist philosophers and theorists, as well as students and teachers in philosophy, women’s and gender studies, medical ethics, critical philosophies of race and coloniality, and disability studies. We have been waiting for this book."" — Sina Kramer, author of Excluded Within: The (Un)Intelligibility of Radical Political Actors"

Author Information

Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Vanderbilt University. Her books include Response Ethics; Carceral Humanitarianism: The Logic of Refugee Detention; and Earth and World: Philosophy after the Apollo Missions. Hanna Kiri Gunn is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Merced. Holly Longair is a full-time regular instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

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