Hermeneutical Injustice

Fricker: Hermeneutical injustice happens when our shared tools of social interpretation puts a person or group at an unfair disadvantage. Fricker explains this sort of epistemic injustice as stemming from a gap in a collective hermeneutical resource. In the 1960s, Wendy Samford was experiencing depressive symptoms after the birth of her first child and she and her husband had been blaming her for these difficulties. After a while, a friend of hers convinced her to attend a consciousness grazing group where people started talking about postpartum depression. She realized that what I'd been blaming myself for wasn't my personal deficiency but a combination of physiological things and societal thing which was isolation. That realization made