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  • Publisher:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Publication date:
    24 March 2026
    30 June 2024
    ISBN:
    9781399532945
    9781399532921
    9781399532938
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    • Subjects:
    Literature, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Literary Theory, Anthropology
    Series:
    Gender and the Body in Literature and Culture
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Literary Theory, Anthropology
    Series:
    Gender and the Body in Literature and Culture
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    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.

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