Description: Draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties of the modern peristaltic system
Brief description: Jean Walton is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Rhode Island. Her previous books include Mudflat Dreaming: Waterfront Battles and the Squatters Who Fought Them in 1970s Vancouver (2018); Buffalo Trace: A Threefold Vibration, co-authored with Mary Cappello and James Morrison (2018); and Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference (2001).
Review Quotes:
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