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.
Author: Elizabeth a. Wilson
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 09/04/2015
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.13w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9780822359708
ISBN10: 0822359707
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects
Author: Elizabeth a. Wilson
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 09/04/2015
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.13w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9780822359708
ISBN10: 0822359707
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects
About the Author
Elizabeth A. Wilson is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University and the author of Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body, also published by Duke University Press.