Dissident Gut
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-3292-1 (ISBN)
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.
Jean Walton is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Rhode Island. Her previous books include Mudflat Dreaming: Waterfront Battles and the Squatters Who Fought Them in 1970s Vancouver (2018); Buffalo Trace: A Threefold Vibration, co-authored with Mary Cappello and James Morrison (2018); and Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference (2001).
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Biopolitics of Metabolic Disturbance
Part I: Macro-Peristalsis
1. Metabolic Rift and the Remedy of Faecal Recycling
2. Faecal Habitus
3. Marx’s Regulation of Metabolism
4. The Second Brain
Part II: Micro-Peristalsis
5. Unkinking, Streamlining, and the Household Engineer
6. The Peristaltic Desiring-Machine of Miss Louise
7. The Creative Devolution of Reverse Peristalsis
8. Peristaltic Politics of a Suffragette
Conclusion: Faecal biopolitics in the twenty-first century
Bibliography
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.06.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Gender and the Body in Literature and Culture |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-3292-8 / 1399532928 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-3292-1 / 9781399532921 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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