PHIL 2500 Lecture Notes - Feminist Epistemology, Crazy Bitch, Kantian Ethics
22 Apr 2013
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People who experience conventionally unacceptable emotions often are subordinated. - may doubt their own sanity. Neglected, misrepresented, ignored, not valued emotions- they are frowned upon or judged in a negative way. They are unconventional emotional responses- not that their uncommon, but that they don"t conform to the dominant ideology. example-person who responds to a racist joke instead of humor. Campbell kind of dismissal that does not dismiss women for having emotions, but characterizes our emotional lives as unhealthy, attempting to limit our ways of acting in the world, and consequently, our effects on the world . 1. the outline new ways of investigating/developing knowledge: develop more perspectives. Open up the discourse to include emotions: we challenge the types of emotions that are acceptable. She looks at how people are situated and the emotions they entail. She connects inferior or subjugated people and their emotions being dismissed.
