Gut Feminism (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)

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UPC:
9780822359708
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
9/4/2015
Author:
Elizabeth A. Wilson
Language:
english
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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 isnt 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 Feminisms 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.