Dissident Gut : Technologies of Regularity, Politics of Revolt
by
Jean Walton
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Gender and the Body in Literature and Culture
ISBN-10
1399532928
ISBN-13
9781399532921
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 30th, 2024
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
616 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 24.10 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: generalGender studies: women and girlsGender studies: women
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Draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties of the modern peristaltic system
Explores the biopolitics of modern metabolism, of how humans manage the world through their peristaltic systems, as they ingest food and produce waste. Set against a backdrop of Marx’s theory of how we “mediate, regulate, and control” our metabolic relation to nature, of the rise of a bourgeois faecal habitus, of the relegation of domestic waste management to female “meta-industrial” workers, of depleted agricultural fields and polluted urban centres, Dissident Gut performs three in-depth case studies of early twentieth-century English and European women whose wayward intestinal systems intervene in larger social, affective, and political networks, and who assert a peristaltic grammar of desire and resistance. Intervenes in theoretical discussions around the gut-brain axis, biopolitics and biopower, materialist feminism, psychoanalysis and hysteria, bodily habitus, and waste management.
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