'The Husband Stitch' is a short story by Carmen Maria Machado which explores some of the epistemological consequences of gender. The article, 'What I Don't Tell My Students about 'The Husband Stitch',' explicitly explores the themes present in the fiction as a critique against certain modes of philosophical thinking. For example, in her article, Jane Dykema discusses Occam's Razor and how it can be used to (erroneously) discredit the testimony of women. We will be discussing the role of epistemic credibility in the feminist philosophy reading group this week, and this short story, and associated commentary, provide a unique literary exploration of this topic.
From Dykema: "Do you feel it, too? Or can you imagine it? The perils of living in a world made by a different gender? The justified and unjustified mistrust? The near-constant experience of being disbelieved, of learning to question your own sanity? How much more it hurts to be let down by 'one of the good ones'?"
The Husband Stitch
What I Don't Tell My Students about 'The Husband Stitch'
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