Just words : on speech and hidden harm / Mary Kate McGowan.

First edition.

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.

1 online resource

We all know that speech can be harmful. But what are the harms and how exactly does the speech in question brings those harms 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 5, 2019).

Print version: McGowan, Mary Kathryn, 1968- Just words. First edition. Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2019

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