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The Political Structure of Emotion: From Dismissal to Dialogue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Sylvia Burrow
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Abstract

How much power does emotional dismissal have over the oppressed's ability to trust outlaw emotions, or to stand for such emotions before others? I discuss Sue Campbell's view of the interpretation of emotion in light of the political significance of emotional dismissal, in response, 1 suggest that feminist contentions of interpretation developed within dialogical communities are best suited to providing resources for expressing, interpreting, defining, and reflecting on our emotions.

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Hypatia , Volume 20 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Analytic Feminism , Fall 2005 , pp. 27 - 43
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Copyright © 2005 by Hypatia, Inc.

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