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Gut Feminism

By Elizabeth A. Wilson

Book information

Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2015
ISBN
0822359510, 9780822359517
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1672546 bytes)
Series
Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
Pages
240\241
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-10-09 23:51:35
Philosophy Nonfiction Gay Lesbian History Science

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.

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