Dissident Gut (eBook)

Technologies of Regularity, Politics of Revolt

Jean Walton (Autor)

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2024
304 Seiten
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-3294-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;mediate, regulate, and control"e; our metabolic relation to nature, of the rise of a bourgeois faecal habitus, of the relegation of domestic waste management to female "e;meta-industrial"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.6.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• ISBN-10: 1-3995-3294-4 / 1399532944
• ISBN-13: 978-1-3995-3294-5 / 9781399532945