In Gut Feminism Elizabeth A. Wilson urges feminists to rethink their resistance to biological
and pharmaceutical data. Turning her attention to the gut and depression, she asks what …

Acknowledgments p. xi Introduction: Emerging Models of Materiality in Feminist Theory
Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman p. 1 Part 1 Material Theory 1 Darwin and Feminism …

Abstract throughout history, women who have striven to achieve intellectually,
professionally, or politically have confronted massive barriers as a result of being …

The history of critical feminist engagement with psychiatry is a long one. It stretches at least
to 1892, the year when Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her autobiographical novella …

Over the space of a few generations, women's relationship with food has changed
dramatically. Yet–despite significant advances in gender equality–food and femininity …

For centuries, traditional medicine has been infused with a masculine bias, often to the
disadvantage of both doctors and patients. Lucy M. Candib challenges prevailing views and …

In 1948, the Constitution of the World Health Organization declared,“Health is a state of
complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or …

This volume presents cutting-edge work at the interface of feminist theory and mental health.
Building on the success of their acclaimed Personality and Psychopathology, which called …

The study of food, cooking, and eating, once a subject limited to nutritionists and a few
anthropologists studying the symbolic importance of foodways among “natives,” 1 has …

Although feminists have been at the forefront of women's health reform for decades, they
have not critiqued prevailing medical thought about breastfeeding in the way they carefully …