Dissident Gut
Technologies of Regularity, Politics of Revolt
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Publishing:1st Jan '26
£24.99
This title is due to be published on 1st January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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.
A remarkable achievement of theoretical and archival rigour, this book changes how we understand the gendered regulation of bodies in the early twentieth century, fundamentally refiguring our sense of the biopolitical. -- Karl Schoonover, University of Warwick
Encyclopaedically digesting medical historical, literary, psychoanalytic, social theoretical, economic and political materials, Walton offers a wonderfully rich and nourishing theory of metabolic processes, both within and beyond the human gut. Through brilliant close readings and careful broader conceptual work, Dissident Gut tracks the compelling ins and outs of the faecal biopolitics that run through modernity’s management of time and space. -- Laura Salisbury, University of Exeter
ISBN: 9781399532938
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304 pages