Trump’s Gender Trouble

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Alyson Cole
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Shell-Shocked: Feminist Criticism After Trump features all the qualities that distinguish Bonnie Honig’s writing – sharp, rich analysis, served up with an immense helping of biting humor. Her texts nourish the imagination, reorient our thinking, and enable us to see anew what has been hiding in plain sight. This is a collection of “forensic and fabulistic work,” of close readings, scrutinizing minor details, and creatively forging “wild connections.” While the essays cover a diverse range of topics, each reflects back on the mechanisms and repercussions of “disaster patriarchy,” Honig’s feminist refinement of Naomi Klein’s account of “disaster capitalism” in The Shock Doctrine; its neglected misogynistic twin, if you will. Working in tandem, both serve to depoliticize through a double move of saturation and desensitization, a process akin to George W. Bush’s “shock and awe” approach to warfare. To further clarify the dynamics of disaster patriarchy, Honig employs domestic violence as an exemplar and a metaphor. The stages of DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse the positions of Victim and Offender) elucidate how the disorientation that Trump deployed (as abusive leader/man/husband/father) served to silence criticism, evade accountability, and thwart political action. Where Hannah Arendt insisted we must “think what we are doing,”Honig revises this imperative for our current moment: we must first understand what has been done to us. The essays in this volume delineate what we’ve endured, and then illuminate the sensory adjustments and collective paths to undoing it. Inspired by Honig’s intervention, and following her practice of feminist criticism, this essay endeavors to extend her insights by pulling on three entangled threads from Shell-Shocked on the themes of “ambigendering,” the gendered politics of vulnerability, and maternal politics.
特朗普的性别问题
《震惊:特朗普之后的女权主义批评》展现了邦妮·霍尼格作品的所有特点——犀利、丰富的分析,以及大量辛辣的幽默。她的文字滋养了想象力,重新定位了我们的思维,使我们能够重新看到隐藏在平淡无奇的东西。这是一本“法医和神话作品”的合集,通过仔细阅读,仔细审视小细节,创造性地建立了“狂野的联系”。虽然这些文章涵盖了各种各样的主题,但每篇文章都反映了“灾难父权制”的机制和影响,这是霍尼格对娜奥米·克莱恩(Naomi Klein)在《休克主义》(the Shock Doctrine)中对“灾难资本主义”的描述的女权主义改进;它是被忽视的厌女症孪生兄弟。两者协同工作,通过饱和和脱敏的双重行动来实现非政治化,这一过程类似于乔治·w·布什(George W. Bush)对战争的“震慑”方法。为了进一步阐明灾难父权制的动态,霍尼格将家庭暴力作为一个范例和隐喻。DARVO(否认、攻击、扭转受害者和罪犯的立场)的阶段阐明了特朗普(作为虐待型领导人/男人/丈夫/父亲)的迷失方向是如何压制批评、逃避责任和挫败政治行动的。汉娜·阿伦特(Hannah Arendt)坚持认为,我们必须“思考我们正在做什么”,而霍尼格为我们当前的时刻修改了这一命令:我们必须首先了解我们所做的事情。这本书中的文章描述了我们所忍受的,然后阐明了感官上的调整和消除它的集体途径。受霍尼格介入的启发,并遵循她的女权主义批评实践,这篇文章试图通过从《炮弹休克》中引出三条纠缠在一起的线索来扩展她的见解,这些线索分别是“歧义”、脆弱的性别政治和母性政治。
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