- Title
- Revisiting BISFT summer school 2006, Harriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 'What's God got to do with it? - politics, economics, Theology'
- Creator
- McPhillips, Kathleen
- Relation
- Feminist Theology Vol. 27, Issue 3, p. 339-351
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0966735019834000
- Publisher
- Sage
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- 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.
- Subject
- trauma; memory; remembering; restoration
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1470679
- Identifier
- uon:48531
- Identifier
- ISSN:0966-7350
- Language
- eng
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