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Gaslighting : Philosophical Approaches / edited by Kelly Oliver, Hanna Gunn, and Holly Longair.

De Gruyter SUNY Press eBook-Package 2025 Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Oliver, Kelly, 1958- editor.
Gunn, Hanna Kiri, 1991- editor.
Longair, Holly, 1992- editor.
Series:
SUNY Series in Gender Theory Series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Manipulative behavior.
Mental suggestion.
Truthfulness and falsehood.
Deception.
Feminist theory.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (288 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Albany : State University of New York Press, 2025.
Summary:
A feminist introduction to emerging philosophical understandings of gaslighting.
Contents:
Intro
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Gaslighting and Psychoanalysis
Gaslighting and Salience
Theoretical Context and Approaches to Gaslighting
Contributions to the Volume
Notes
Works Cited
Part I: What Is Gaslighting?
Chapter 1: Structural Gaslighting
What Is Structural Gaslighting?
"Racecraft" as Structural Gaslighting
Narrative Complicity
Science and Structural Gaslighting
Scientific Racism
Naturalizing Racist Health Inequities: The Case of BiDil
Ableism and the Medicalization of Disability
Philosophy and Ableist Gaslighting
Disableization and Dispossession
Concluding Remarks
Chapter 2: Theorizing Structural Gaslighting as Gaslighting
Theories of Transactional Gaslighting
Abramson's Gaslighting
Ivy's Epistemic Gaslighting
Stark's Manipulative Gaslighting
The Necessary Conditions for Gaslighting
From the Transactional to the Structural
From Transactional to Structural Injustice
Epistemic Structural Gaslighting
Manipulative Structural Gaslighting
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Gaslighting and Social Power: Mills, Medina, and Moi on Knowledge and the Social Imaginary
The Social Imaginary
Hysteria, Power, and Collective Gaslighting
Chapter 4: Moral Gaslighting
Chapter 5: Affective Gaslighting
Chapter 6: Anger Gaslighting as Affective Injustice
The Gaslighting of Anger Gaslighting
What Anger Does, and Why It Matters
Uptake: Anger Gaslighting Behavior
Anger Gaslighting as Moral Gaslighting?
Affective Injustice
Epistemic Injustice or Affective Injustice?
Part II: Experiences of Gaslighting
Chapter 7: Allies Behaving Badly: Gaslighting as Epistemic Injustice.
Preface to the Original Essay
Trans* Epistemology and "Allies" (Original Article)
Gaslighting as Epistemic Injustice
Trans* Epistemology and First-person Authority
No More "Allies"
Chapter 8: Racial Gaslighting
Conceptual Framework
The Process of Racial Gaslighting
Korematsu v. United States (1944): Criminalizing Resistance
Background and Context
Racial Spectacle
Racial Gaslighting
Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Braden (1955): Racial Sedition
Racial Spectacles
Bridging Past and Present
Chapter 9: Varieties of Gaslighting
Cases of Gaslighting
On Holding a View and Lying
Differentiating Factors
Truthfulness
Success
Injury
Method
Moral Judgments
Unifying Features
A Possible Counterexample
Structural Gaslighting
Controlling Images and Gaslighting
Summary
Chapter 10: Giving an Account of the Harms of Medical Gaslighting
Medical Gaslighting as Epistemic Injustice
What Is Medical Gaslighting?
Medical Gaslighting as Testimonial Injustice
Medical Gaslighting as Hermeneutical Injustice
On the Harms of Medical Gaslighting
Delayed Diagnosis and Other Measurable Harms
Embodied Epistemic Harm
Chapter 11: Structural Gaslighting: Hurricane María and Recovery in Puerto Rico
Federal Policies and Practices
Short-term Recovery Efforts
Long-term Recovery Efforts
Federal Narrative Used to Explain Delay
Structural Gaslighting, Debt, and Colonialism
List of Contributors
Index.
Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
9798855801323
OCLC:
1503842725

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