Episode 21: Gaslighting
Released March 16, 2021
On this episode of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss the term "gaslighting." They begin by jumping into the origin of the term in the 1940s and its entrance into mainstream discourse today. Then the two go onto explore how gaslighting works, and whether it needs to be deliberate (spoiler alert: no!). Finally, David and Ellie think about structural and cultural gaslighting in systems of oppression. Also discussed in the episode: The Chicks, epistemic injustice, the medical establishment, and...is Socrates a gaslighter? Gaslit? Neither?
Interested in the works discussed? You can find them here:
George Cukor, Gaslight (film)
Veronica Ivy, “Allies Behaving Badly: Gaslighting as Epistemic Injustice”
Cynthia A. Stark, “Gaslighting, Misogyny, and Psychological Oppression”
Nora Berenstain, “White Feminist Gaslighting”
Elena Ruíz, “Cultural Gaslighting”
Shelley Tremain, “Structural Gaslighting, Epistemic Injustice, and Ableism in Philosophy”
Lauren Duca, “Donald Trump is Gaslighting America”
Karen C. Adkins, “Gaslighting by Crowd”
Elinor Greenberg, “Are You Being "Gaslighted" By the Narcissist in Your Life?”
Diane E. Hoffmann and Anita J. Tarzian, “The Girl Who Cried Pain: A Bias Against Women in the Treatment of Pain"
Ashley Fetters, “The Doctor Doesn’t Listen to Her. But the Media Is Starting To”
