Dissident Gut : Technologies of Regularity, Politics of Revolt (Gender and the Body in Literature and Culture)

Walton, Jean

Edinburgh University Press（2024/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 304 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399532921
• DDC分類 809.933561

Full Description

Explores the biopolitics of modern metabolism, of how humans manage the world through their peristaltic systems, as they ingest food and produce waste. Set against a backdrop of Marx's theory of how we mediate, regulate, and control our metabolic relation to nature, of the rise of a bourgeois faecal habitus, of the relegation of domestic waste management to female meta-industrial workers, of depleted agricultural fields and polluted urban centres, Dissident Gut performs three in-depth case studies of early twentieth-century English and European women whose wayward intestinal systems intervene in larger social, affective, and political networks, and who assert a peristaltic grammar of desire and resistance. Intervenes in theoretical discussions around the gut-brain axis, biopolitics and biopower, materialist feminism, psychoanalysis and hysteria, bodily habitus, and waste management.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Biopolitics of Metabolic Disturbance

Part I: Macro-Peristalsis

1. Metabolic Rift and the Remedy of Faecal Recycling

2. Faecal Habitus

3. Marx's Regulation of Metabolism

4. The Second Brain

Part II: Micro-Peristalsis

5. Unkinking, Streamlining, and the Household Engineer

6. The Peristaltic Desiring-Machine of Miss Louise

7. The Creative Devolution of Reverse Peristalsis

8. Peristaltic Politics of a Suffragette

Conclusion: Faecal biopolitics in the twenty-first century

Bibliography

Notes

Index