A Feminist Theory of Refusal Honig Bonnie
A Feminist Theory of Refusal Honig Bonnie An acclaimed political theorist offers a fresh, interdisciplinary analysis of the politics of refusal, highlighting the promise of a feminist politics that…
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A Feminist Theory of Refusal Honig Bonnie
An acclaimed political theorist offers a fresh, interdisciplinary analysis of the politics of refusal, highlighting the promise of a feminist politics that does not simply withdraw from the status quo but also transforms it.The Bacchae, Euripides's fifth-century tragedy, famously depicts the wine god Dionysus and the women who follow him as indolent, drunken, mad. They reject work, not out of laziness, but because they have had enough of women's routine obedience. But Bonnie Honig sees the women differently.
Their "arc of refusal," Honig argues, can inspire a new feminist politics of refusal.Refusal, the withdrawal from unjust political and economic systems, is a key theme in political philosophy. Later they escape prison, leave the city of Thebes, explore alternative lifestyles, kill the king, and then return to claim the city. Its best-known literary avatar
Public Things Honig Bonnie
Feminist Theory
Feminist Postcolonial Theory
Architectures of Refusal
The Refusal of Work
Feminist Theory, Women's Writing