Linda Martín Alcoff discusses how she and other survivors come to understand the impact of sexual violence and deploys her philosopher expertise to deconstructs the espistemic injustices of philosophers such as Foucault.

Show Notes

Rape and Resistance

By Linda Martin Alcoff
Alcoff, Linda and Laura Gray, “Survivor Discourse: Transgression or Recuperation?” Signs 18(2): 260-290 (1993).

College Girl

By Laura Gray-Rosendale
https://sunypress.edu/Books/C/College-Girl

The Epistemology of Resistance

By José Medina
Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imaginations
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-epistemology-of-resistance-9780199929047?cc=pl&lang=en&

Credible

By Deborah Tuerkheimer
In this landmark book, a former prosecutor, legal expert, and leading authority on sexual violence examines why we are primed to disbelieve allegations of sexual abuse—and how we can transform a culture and a legal system structured to dismiss accusers.
https://www.deborahtuerkheimer.com/