Gut feminism / Elizabeth A. Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Ann), 1964- author.

Series:

Next wave (Duke University Press)

Next wave : new directions in women's studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Mind and body.

Feminism and science.

Depression, Mental.

Physical Description:

x, 230 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.

Summary:

In Gut Feminism Elizabeth A. Wilson urges feminists to rethink their resistance to biological and pharamaceutical data. Turning her attention to the gut and depression, she asks what conceptual and methodological innovations become possible when feminist theory is not so instinctively antibiological. She examines research on antidepressants, placebos, transference, phantasy, eating disorders, and suicidality with two goals in mind: to show how pharamaceutical 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Depression, biology, aggression

Underbelly

The biological unconscious

Bitter melancholy

Chemical transference

The bastard placebo

The pharmakology of depression.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-223) and index.

ISBN:

9780822359517

0822359510

9780822359708

0822359707

OCLC:

894746160