Gut Feminism
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: Sep 04, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780822359517
Description: "In Gut Feminism Elizabeth A. Wilson urges feminists to rethink their resistance to biological and pharmaceutical data. Turning her attention to the gut and depression, she asks what conceptual and methodological innovations become possible when feminist theory isn't so instinctively antibiological. She examines research on anti-depressants, placebos, transference, phantasy, eating disorders and suicidality with two goals in mind: to show how pharmaceutical data can be useful for feminist theory, and to address the necessary role of aggression in feminist politics. Gut Feminism's provocative challenge to feminist theory is that it would be more powerful if it could attend to biological data and tolerate its own capacity for harm" -- From the publisher.
Notes: Source title: Gut Feminism (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)