Full 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.
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Depression, Biology, Aggression 1
Part I. Feminist Theory
1. Underbelly 21
2. The Biolocial Unconscious 45
3. Bitter Melancholy 68
Part II. Antidepressants
4. Chemical Transference 97
5. The Bastard Placebo 121
6. The Pharmakology of Depression 141
Conclusion 169
Notes 181
References 201
Index 225
