Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (858 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1558618376 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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From BookforumTesto Junkie is an arresting hybrid work: a philosophical treatise and a literary homage embedded in a sexually explicit drug diary addressed to a ghost. Preciado’s prose is psychedelic, hyperbolic maybe, but exciting, persuasive, and even consoling. —Johanna Fateman
VWP said Four Stars. Read for class at UC Davis - overall good read, engaging.. Queer studies will never be the same Partly quasi-fictitious memoir of a body somewhere between "feminist hooked on testosterone" and "transgender body hooked on feminism", partly high-speed gender theory and partly Foucaultian analysis of our world, testo Junkie has truly revolutionized the way we look at ourselves. I recommend this book for anyone who likes anything from Derrida to Chuck Klosterman. This is truly required reading for anyone interested in gen. JK said The academic side of things is all the better for its obvious relation to real life. Heady and thought-provoking, but also immensely personal and introspective--the way "theory" should be. TESTO JUNKIE is an in-depth study of the pharmaceutical industry, the social construction of gender in the second half of the "The academic side of things is all the better for its obvious relation to real life" according to JK. Heady and thought-provoking, but also immensely personal and introspective--the way "theory" should be. TESTO JUNKIE is an in-depth study of the pharmaceutical industry, the social construction of gender in the second half of the 20th century, and of how the intersections of culture and economy have re-shaped and re-defined our definitions of sex and gender. But it's also a personal account of the author's journey of self-m. 0th century, and of how the intersections of culture and economy have re-shaped and re-defined our definitions of sex and gender. But it's also a personal account of the author's journey of self-m
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. 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, Paul B. This riveting continuation of Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality also includes Preciado's diaristic account of his own use of testosterone every day for one year, and its mesmerizing impact on his body as well as his imagination.