Becoming What You Eat
Anna Kingsford's Vegetarian Posthuman
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12411567 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Natasha Rebry Coulthard (0000-0002-6691-0344, University of Lethbridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 325-353 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1503 • E-ISSN: 1470-1553 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1060150320000406 |
| OpenAlex | W4285176054 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
By situating Anna Kingsford's vegetarian writings within the paired context of late-Victorian dietetic discourse and modern posthuman philosophy, this article demonstrates both the Victorian association between diet and evolution and the contemporary applications of late-nineteenth-century dietary ethics. Kingsford was a leading scientist, antivivisector, feminist, and mystic who helped shape the Victorian vegetarian movement. Her influential rhetoric emphasized that vegetarianism would nourish interspecies relations and allow Victorians to materialize novel forms of subjectivity, kinship, community, and responsibility appropriate for the post-Darwinian landscape. This article reads her foundational vegetarian treatise, The Perfect Way in Diet (1881), along with her published lectures on vegetarianism through the overlapping lenses of posthumanism and new materialism, illuminating the congruence between Kingsford's call to embody ethics and the contemporary posthuman call to become an ecologically situated self. I argue that by framing vegetarianism as a generative, affirmative kin-making practice, grounded in the shared materiality and interests of humans and nonhumans, Kingsford articulates a posthuman dietary ethics
Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Materialism · Materiality (auditing · Posthuman · Posthumanism · Rhetoric · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Technoscience · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
How We Became Posthuman
Bodies of Tomorrow
«Eating Well,» or the Calculation of the Subject
Posthuman Critical Theory
Staying with the Trouble
Eating and the Imagination of Politics
Eating Serial
Introduction
Eating Meat and Eating People
Veganism as Affirmative Biopolitics
Foucault and the Ethics of Eating
A thousand plateaus
The Politics of Diet
You are what you eat'
Vibrant Matter
Boundaries, Entities, and Modern Vegetarianism
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |