Testo junkie [electronic resource] : sex, drugs, and biopolitics in the pharmacopornographic era / Beatriz Preciado ; translated from the French by Bruce Benderson.
2013
HQ77.9 .P7413 2013eb
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Testo junkie [electronic resource] : sex, drugs, and biopolitics in the pharmacopornographic era / Beatriz Preciado ; translated from the French by Bruce Benderson.
Author
Preciado, Beatriz.
Uniform Title
Testo yonqui. English
ISBN
9781558618381 electronic book
1558618384 electronic book
9781558618374
1558618376
1558618384 electronic book
9781558618374
1558618376
Published
New York, NY : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (427 pages)
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HQ77.9 .P7413 2013eb
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306.76/8
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.
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"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.
"Published in French as Testo Junkie by Editions Grasset & Fasquelle in Paris in 2008"--Title page verso.
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