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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul B Preciado |
ISBN: | 9781558618374 1558618376 |
OCLC Number: | 1027482423 |
Notes: | "Originally published in Spanish as Testo Yonqui by España 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. "Fifth printing, June 2017"--Title page verso. |
Description: | 427 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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. |
Other Titles: | Testo yonqui. |
Responsibility: | Paul B. Preciado ; translated from the French by Bruce Benderson. |
Abstract:
"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"--
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