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Gut feminism / Elizabeth A. Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Ann), 1964- author.
- Series:
- Next wave.
- Next wave : new directions in women's studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminist theory.
- Mind and body.
- Feminism and science.
- Depression, Mental.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Elizabeth A. Wilson shakes feminist theory from its resistance to biological and pharmaceutical data and urges that now is the time for feminism to critically engage with biology. Doing so will reanimate feminist theory, strengthening its ability to address depression, affect, gender, and feminist politics.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Depression, biology, aggression
- Underbelly
- The biological unconscious
- Bitter melancholy
- Chemical transference
- The bastard placebo
- The pharmakology of depression.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822375203
- 0822375206
- OCLC:
- 915138757
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