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Just Words : On Speech and Hidden Harm, Paperback / softback Book

Just Words : On Speech and Hidden Harm Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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We all know that speech can be harmful. But what are these harms, and how exactly does the speech in question bring them about?

Mary Kate McGowan identifies a previously overlooked mechanism by which speech constitutes, rather than merely causes, harm.

She argues that speech constitutes harm when it enacts a norm that prescribes that harm.

McGowan illustrates this theory by considering many categories of speech including sexist remarks, racist hate speech, pornography, verbal triggers for stereotype threat, micro-aggressions, political dog whistles, slam poetry, and even the hanging of posters.

Just Words explores a variety of harms--such as oppression, subordination, discrimination, domination, harassment, and marginalization--and ways in which these harms can be remedied.

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