Oppressive Speech and Society

Mihaela Popa-Wyatt is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Manchester, UK. Her primary research areas are philosophy of language and linguistics, meta-ethics, social and political philosophy, social epistemology, and philosophy of race and gender.

• Introduction Mihaela Popa-Wyatt Part 1: The Linguistic Nature of Slurs 1. The Pejorative Functioning of Gendered Slurs Lauren Ashwell 2. ‘Stupid Women’ and ‘Rebel Scum’: The Problem of Compositional Slurs Graham Stevens 3. Slurs Sting: Silencing, Un-Blockability, and the Intersubjective Dimension of Communication Stephen Barker and Mihaela Popa-Wyatt Part 2: The Social Nature of Oppressive Speech 4. Oppressive Acts Mary Kate McGowan 5. Small Events, Big Effects, and The Two Faces of Institutional Accumulation Ron Mallon 6. Do Agents of Everyday Sexist Speech Acts Discriminate Against Women? Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen Part 3: Social and Political Remedies to Oppressive Speech 7. The Embedded and Embodied Politics of Speech: Social Imaginaries, Affect, and Institutional Power Millicent Churcher and Louise Richardson-Self 8. Does the Baker Have a Free Speech Case? The Expansion of Speech-as-Conduct and Risks to Free Speech Katharine Gelber 9. The Riddle of Hate Speech: Can Sincere Expression Be Morally Wrong? Jamie Mayerfeld