Bonnie Honig’s A Feminist Theory of Refusal with Kehinde Wiley’s After John Raphael Smith’s “A Bacchante (after Sir Joshua Reynolds)”

Resistant Form

“…On mania as an indispensable ingredient for political change, see J.Butler (2020a, passim); see alsoBruce (2020) andMorales (2022); on comic madness, seeBeta (1999),Prauscello (2013),Wohl (2013), and Telò (2016, passim); see also chapter 5. 119 On the parallelism between theater and the deliberative and judiciary institutions of Athens, see esp.Hall (1995) andWohl (2014b).…”

“…On the role of Lysistrata in contemporary feminist politics, through explicit or implicit, conscious or unconscious receptions, seeMorales (2013;,Dutsch (2015), andRobson (2016, 59-64). Morales points out that the very idea of a sex strike presupposes the sexist, patriarchal notion of sex as a "service" that women provide to men; she has also shown how the privileging of the sex strike in scholarship and reception reinscribes the sexist dynamics; see alsoZuckerberg (2019).…”