9780801487408-0801487404-Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair

Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair

ISBN-13: 9780801487408
ISBN-10: 0801487404
Edition: 1
Author: Hilde Lindemann Nelson
Publication date: 2001
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Format: Paperback 228 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780801487408
ISBN-10: 0801487404
Edition: 1
Author: Hilde Lindemann Nelson
Publication date: 2001
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Format: Paperback 228 pages

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Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair (ISBN-13: 9780801487408 and ISBN-10: 0801487404), written by authors Hilde Lindemann Nelson, was published by Cornell University Press in 2001. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Mental Health (Social Psychology & Interactions, Psychology & Counseling, Social Psychology & Interactions, Psychology, Ethics & Morality, Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Women's Studies) books. You can easily purchase or rent Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Mental Health books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.62.

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Hilde Lindemann Nelson focuses on the stories of groups of people―including Gypsies, mothers, nurses, and transsexuals―whose identities have been defined by those with the power to speak for them and to constrain the scope of their actions. By placing their stories side by side with narratives about the groups in question, Nelson arrives at some important insights regarding the nature of identity.

She regards personal identity as consisting not only of how people view themselves but also of how others view them. These perceptions combine to shape the person's field of action. If a dominant group constructs the identities of certain people through socially shared narratives that mark them as morally subnormal, those who bear the damaged identity cannot exercise their moral agency freely.

Nelson identifies two kinds of damage inflicted on identities by abusive group relations: one kind deprives individuals of important social goods, and the other deprives them of self-respect. To intervene in the production of either kind of damage, Nelson develops the counterstory, a strategy of resistance that allows the identity to be narratively repaired and so restores the person to full membership in the social and moral community. By attending to the power dynamics that constrict agency, Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair augments the narrative approaches of ethicists such as Alasdair MacIntyre, Martha Nussbaum, Richard Rorty, and Charles Taylor.

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