Description
| Product ID: | 9781558618374 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Testo Junkie |
| Subtitle: | Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era |
| Authors: | Author: Beatriz Preciado |
| Page Count: | 432 |
| Subjects: | Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies, gender groups |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The most visionary book on gender and sexuality today. This visionary book on gender and sexuality weaves together high theory and intimate memoir, with "spectacular" results—"and the gendered body will never be the same again" (Jack Halberstam). 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. 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 his own use of testosterone every day for one year, and its mesmerizing impact on his body as well as his imagination. |
| Imprint Name: | Feminist Press at The City University of New York |
| Publisher Name: | Feminist Press at The City University of New York |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2013-10-31 |
