Dissident Gut: Technologies of Regularity, Politics of Revolt

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 ...