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Dissident Gut: Technologies of Regularity, Politics of Revolt

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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.
Request Code : ZLIBIO4363277
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Year:
2024
Edition:
1
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Language:
English
Pages:
292
ISBN 10:
1399532928
ISBN 13:
9781399532921
ISBN:
1399532928,9781399532921
Series:
Gender and the Body in Literature and Culture

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