This book offers a feminist philosophical analysis of contemporary public skepticism about women's memories of past harm. It concentrates primarily on writings associated with the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF), founded in 1992 as a lobby for parents whose adult children have accused them of some abuse after a period of having not remembered it.

Chapter 1 Constructing the "memory wars" Chapter 2 Respecting rememberers Chapter 3 Framing women's testimony: narrative position and memory authority Chapter 4 The subjects of therapy: Revisiting Trauma and Recovery Chapter 5 "The feeling of identity is quite wanting...in the true woman": Models of memory and moral character Chapter 6 Suggestibility, misdesign, and social skepticism Chapter 7 The costs of a stereotype: Defending women's confidential records Chapter 8 A singular and representative life: Personal memory and systematic harms

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