Testo junkie : sex, drugs, and biopolitics in the pharmacopornographic era / Beatriz Preciado ; translated from the French by Bruce Benderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Preciado, Paul B.

Standardized Title:

Testo yonqui. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Transness.

Transsexualism.

Gender identity.

Queer theory.

Testosterone--Physiological aspects.

Testosterone.

Physical Description:

427 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2013.

Summary:

"What constitutes a "real" man or woman in the twenty-first century? Since birth control pills, erectile dysfunction remedies, and factory-made testosterone and estrogen were developed, biology is definitely no longer destiny.In this penetrating analysis of gender, Beatriz Preciado shows the ways in which the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally changed how gender and sexual identity are formulated, and how the pharmaceutical and pornography industries are in the business of creating desire. This riveting continuation of Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality also includes Preciado's diaristic account of her own use of testosterone every day for one year, and its mesmerizing impact on her body as well as her imagination.Beatriz Preciado has become one of the leading thinkers in the study of gender and sexuality. She is currently a professor of political history of the body, gender theory, and history of performance at Universite; Paris VIII. She received her PhD in the theory of architecture at Princeton University, and a master of philosophy and contemporary theory of gender at the New School for Social Research in New York"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Your death

The pharmacopornograhic era

Testogel

History of technosexuality

In which the body of VD becomes an element in an experimental context

Technogender

Becoming T

Pharmacopower

Testo-mania

Pornpower

Jimi and me

The micropolitics of gender in the pharmacopornographic era : experimentation, voluntary intoxication, mutation

Eternal life.

Notes:

"Originally published in Spanish as Testo Yonqui by Espana Calpe in Madrid in 2008"--Title page verso.

"Published in French as Testo Junkie by Editions Grasset & Fasquelle in Paris in 2008"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9781558618374

1558618376

OCLC:

844073892

Publisher Number:

99955419279