Gaslighting
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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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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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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
