In "A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties" (2009), Suze Rotolo describes being Bob Dylan's "chick" in the 1960s: "There was an attitude toward musicians’ girlfriends—'chicks,' as we were called, or 'old lady,' if a wife—that I couldn’t tolerate. Since this was before there was a feminist vocabulary, I had no framework for those feelings yet they were very strong." The situation of having an experience but lacking vocabulary to name it is "hermeneutical injustice", as philosopher Miranda Fricker dubbed it in "Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing" (2007). Fricker's prime example was women, like Rotolo, dealing with male supremacy before second-wave feminism. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 12 January 2025)
Quotation from Rotolo here: https://susanbordo.substack.com/p/a-complete-fiction-suze-rotolo-and
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