A Feminist Theory of Refusal

by Bonnie Honig

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. But Bonnie Honig sees the women differently. They reject work,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067424849X
• ISBN13: 9780674248496
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.3"