Dissident Gut: Technologies of Regularity, Politics of Revolt (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781399532938)

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.

Author: Jean Walton
ISBN-10: 1399532936
ISBN-13: 9781399532938
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2026
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.64d