%0 Journal Article
%T Revisiting BISFT Summer School 2006, Harriot
%A Kathleen McPhillips
%J Feminist Theology
%@ 1745-5189
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0966735019834000
%X This article addresses research that deals with approaches to psychological and social trauma and ways to manage its disruptive power. In the first instance I apply this to the life of my great-grandmother in order to help understand why her life became unbearably difficult, the treatment she received as a female ¡®hysteric¡¯ in the 1940s and most importantly the impact that her life has continued to have through four generations of family life. In the second instance, I apply trauma theory to the history of forgetting women and its implications for feminist action and recovery with specific reference to Feminist Theology. I suggest that there are powerful connections between the individual and collective forgetting of women¡¯s lives, and that this forgetting is premised on forms of symbolic violence. I turn to the work of psychiatrists Judith Herman, and Russell Meares and feminist theologian Elisabeth Sch¨¹ssler Fiorenza, in order to provide an account of forgetting, remembering and finally recovery
%K Trauma
%K memory
%K remembering
%K restoration
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0966735019834000