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This article addresses research that deals with approaches to psychological and social trauma and ways to manage its disruptive power. In the first instance I apply this to the life of my great-grandmother in order to help understand why her life became unbearably difficult, the treatment she receiv...

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Main Author: McPhillips, Kathleen (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2019]
In: Feminist theology
Year: 2019, Volume: 27, Issue: 3, Pages: 339-351
RelBib Classification:FD Contextual theology
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B Restoration
B Memory
B Trauma
B Remembering
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Summary:This article addresses research that deals with approaches to psychological and social trauma and ways to manage its disruptive power. In the first instance I apply this to the life of my great-grandmother in order to help understand why her life became unbearably difficult, the treatment she received as a female 'hysteric' in the 1940s and most importantly the impact that her life has continued to have through four generations of family life. In the second instance, I apply trauma theory to the history of forgetting women and its implications for feminist action and recovery with specific reference to Feminist Theology., I suggest that there are powerful connections between the individual and collective forgetting of women's lives, and that this forgetting is premised on forms of symbolic violence. I turn to the work of psychiatrists Judith Herman, and Russell Meares and feminist theologian Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, in order to provide an account of forgetting, remembering and finally recovery.
ISSN:1745-5189
Contains:Enthalten in: Feminist theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0966735019834000