Bonnie Honig

Shell-Shocked

Feminist Criticism After Trump

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Produktbeschreibung

"Shell-Shocked is funny, lacerating, and extremely thoughtful about feminism's power and utility during and emerging from the Donald Trump administration. Deftly weaving together political, literary and pop cultural analysis, Honig's vivid account will prove crucial as we work to resensitize ourselves. It is a reminder that feminism is a critical tool in beginning to unravel, respond to, and ideally build something better out of, the shock politics of the past four years"-Rebecca Traister, author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger 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. Feminist criticism demands justice. Shell-Shocked shows how women have talked back, acted out, and built anew. In seeking out the details that can break the spell of shock, Honig summons alternative ways of living and writing in a time of public violence, plunder, and-hopefully-democratic renewal. Bonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media (MCM) and Political Science at Brown University. Her most recent book is Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 131mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9780823293766
• ISBN-10: 0823293769
• Artikelnr.: 59909338

Autorenporträt

Bonnie Honig

Inhaltsangabe

Preface xiii
1 Trump's Family Romance and the Magic of Television 1
2 Gaslight and the Shock Politics Two-Step 13
3 The President's House Is Empty: Inauguration Day 33
4 He Said, He Said: The Feminization of James Comey 39
5 The Members-Only President Goes to Alabama 46
6 An Empire unto Himself? Harvey Weinstein's Downfall 52
7 Race and the Revolving Door of (Un)Reality TV 56
8 They Want Civility, Let's Give It to Them 62
9 Stormy Daniels's #MeToo Moment 70
10 The Trump Doctrine 76
11 Jon Stewart and the Limits of Mockery 81
12 Bullying Canada: An American Presidential Tradition 86
13 House Renovations: For Christine Blasey Ford 92
14 No Collision: Opting Out of Catastrophe 98
15 Epstein, Barr, and the Virus of Civic Fatigue (with Sara Rushing) 107
16 Mueller, They Wrote 112
17 Unbelievable: Scenes from a Structure 117
18 Gothic Girls: Bombshell's Variation on a Theme 126
19 Boxed In: Debbie Dingell vs. Donald Trump 130
20 Mediating Masculinity: Rambo Republicanism and the Long Iran Crisis
138
21 "13 Angry Democrats"? A Noir Reading of 12 Angry Men 145
22 In the Streets a Serenade: Siena under Lockdown 153
23 Isn't It Ironic? Spitballing in a Pandemic 157
24 Build That Wall: The Politics of Motherhood in Portland 163
25 Impenetrable: Gaslighting the 14th Amendment 171
26 "Hallelujah": The People Want Their House Back 178
27 Loose Threads 184
Acknowledgments 195
Notes 199
Credits 241