I am reading Kathleen Stock’s book, Material Girls, and her argumentative form throughout seems to be: badly misrepresent social theory she dislikes and then maximally perform incredulity, over and over, without actually refuting arguments. This is not good scholarship. Tweet added by Joshua Shaw @JoshuaDMShaw

Joshua Shaw

3 years

I am reading Kathleen Stock’s book, Material Girls, and her argumentative form throughout seems to be: badly misrepresent social theory she dislikes and then maximally perform incredulity, over and over, without actually refuting arguments. This is not good scholarship.

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Joshua Shaw

@JoshuaDMShaw

3 years

Also, what a wild suggestion she reaches from a ‘Stroop’-like effect. The cognitive psychologists, among whom I once worked, would be appalled by this kind of reasoning.