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Testo Junkie Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era

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ISBN-10: 1558618376

ISBN-13: 9781558618374

Edition: 2013

Authors: Paul B. Preciado, Bruce Benderson, Paul B. Preciado

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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 is formulated, and how the pharmaceutical and pornography industries are in the business of creating desire. This riveting continuation of 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…    
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Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Publication date: 9/17/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Novelist, translator, and essayist Bruce Benderson is the author of a memoir, The Romanian: Story of an Obsession, winner of France's prestigious Prix de Flore in French translation, and Pacific Agony (Semiotext(e), 2009.)

Introduction
Your Death
The Pharmacopornographic 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