A biting, funny, up-to-the-minute collection of essays by a major
political thinker that gets to the heart of what feminist criticism
can do in the face of everyday politics. Stormy Daniels offered a
#metoo moment, and Anderson Cooper missed it. Conservatives don't
believe that gender is fluid, except when they're feminizing James
Comey. "Gaslighting" is our word for male domination but a gaslight
also lights the way for a woman's survival. Across two dozen
trenchant, witty reflections, Bonnie Honig offers a biting feminist
account of politics since Trump. In today's shock politics, Honig
traces the continuing work of patriarchy, as powerful, mediocre men
gaslight their way across the landscape of democratic institutions.
But amid the plundering and patriarchy, feminist criticism finds
ways to demand justice. Shell-Shocked shows how women have talked
back, acted out, and built anew, exposing the practices and
policies of feminization that have historically been aimed not just
at women but also at racial and ethnic minorities. The task of
feminist criticism-and this is what makes it particularly
well-suited to this moment-is to respond to shock politics by
resensitizing us to its injustices and honing the empathy needed
for living with others in the world as equals. Feminist criticism's
penchant for the particular and the idiosyncratic is part of its
power. It is drawn to the loose threads of psychological and
collective life, not to the well-worn fabrics with which
communities and nations hide their shortcomings and deflect
critical scrutiny of their injustices. Taking literary models such
as Homer's Penelope and Toni Morrison's Cee, Honig draws out the
loose threads from the fabric of shock politics' domination and
begins unraveling them. Honig's damning, funny, and razor sharp
essays take on popular culture, national politics, and political
theory alike as texts for resensitizing through a feminist lens.
Here are insightful readings of film and television, from Gaslight
to Bombshell, Unbelievable to Stranger Things, Rambo to the
Kavanaugh hearings. In seeking out the details that might break the
spell of shock, this groundbreaking book illustrates alternative
ways of living and writing in a time of public violence, plunder,
and-hopefully-democratic renewal.
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