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About this book
With "triggered" as Google's most searched word of 2016, trigger warnings have become a prevalent yet controversial concept in American higher education and society. As the debate over the value and place of triggering material continues, Trigger Warnings: History, Theory, Context provides the historical context and theoretical analysis of the use of trigger and content warnings in academia. This important edited collection examines the history, theories, and ethics of trigger warnings and presents case studies from instructors and students describing instances when trigger warnings were and were not used. By exploring the issue through several scholarly lenses and providing examples of when trigger warnings may or may not be used effectively, Trigger Warnings provides rigorous analysis of the controversy
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: History and Theory
- Chapter 1: Like Trapdoors
- Chapter 2: Accessibility on Campus
- Chapter 3: Contagious Speech
- Chapter 4: Gender Constructions and Trauma
- Chapter 5: Walking on the Shards of the Glass Ceiling
- Chapter 6: An “App” for That
- Chapter 7: Writing Policy about Trigger Warnings
- Part II: Case Studies
- Chapter 8: Institution-Wide Trigger Warnings
- Chapter 9: On Privilege, Authority, and Abuses of Professorial Power
- Chapter 10: Trigger Warnings, Protectionism, and the Feminist Student Subject
- Chapter 11: Beyond Trigger Warnings
- Chapter 12: Adapting Trigger Warnings in the Introduction to Women’s Studies Course
- Chapter 13: Trigger Warning Expectations
- Chapter 14: Lived Experiences of Military Veterans in the College English Classroom
- Chapter 15: Trigger Warnings to Protect Learning
- Chapter 16: Teaching Disruptive Literature in Precarious Times
- About the Editor and Contributors