Gut Feminism

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth A. Wilson Klappentext Elizabeth A. Wilson shakes feminist theory from its resistance to biological and pharmaceutical data and urges that now is the time for feminism to critically engage with biology. Doing so will reanimate feminist theory, strengthening its ability to address depression, affect, gender, and feminist politics. Zusammenfassung Elizabeth A. Wilson shakes feminist theory from its resistance to biological and pharmaceutical data and urges that now is the time for feminism to critically engage with biology. Doing so will reanimate feminist theory! strengthening its ability to address depression! affect! gender! and feminist politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments  vii Introduction: Depression, Biology, Aggression  1 Part I. Feminist Theory 1. Underbelly  21 2. The Biolocial Unconscious  45 3. Bitter Melancholy  68 Part II. Antidepressants 4. Chemical Transference  97 5. The Bastard Placebo  121 6. The Pharmakology of Depression  141 Conclusion  169 Notes  181 References  201 Index  225

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth A Wilson, Elizabeth A. Wilson
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2015
• EAN: 9780822359517
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5951-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave: New Directions in W; Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave: New Directions in W
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories