Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
Sep 2013 · The Feminist Press at CUNY
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Beatriz Preciado administers testosterone everyday for a year without medical supervision. During the experiment, she analyzes gender and brings the history of sexuality up to date. With the precision of Foucault and Butler, she traces the role of the pharmaceutical and pornography industries in defining how we express our sexualities, and shows how technologies of gender inform everyday life.
Beatriz Preciado administers testosterone everyday for a year without medical supervision. During the experiment, she analyzes gender and brings the history of sexuality up to date. With the precision of Foucault and Butler, she traces the role of the pharmaceutical and pornography industries in ...
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Paul B. Preciado is one of today's leading thinkers in the study of gender and sexuality. He is currently Professor of Political History of the Body, Gender Theory, and History of Performance at the University Paris VIII. He received his PhD in the Theory of Architecture at Princeton University where he earned special distinction to which he was a research career. He earned a Master of Philosophy and Contemporary Theory of Gender in the New School for Social Research in New York, where he studied with Agnes Heller and Jacques Derrida.
Bruce Benderson is the translator of many authors from the French, including Virginie Despentes, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Pierre Guyotat, and, though it is quite far away from his usual subject matter, the autobiography of Céline Dion. He is also the author of several novels and works of nonfiction.
Bruce Benderson is the translator of many authors from the French, including Virginie Despentes, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Pierre Guyotat, and, though it is quite far away from his usual subject matter, the autobiography of Céline Dion. He is also the author of several novels and works of nonfiction.
Paul B. Preciado is one of today's leading thinkers in the study of gender and sexuality. He is currently Professor of Political History of the Body, Gender Theory, and History of Performance at the University Paris VIII. He received his PhD in the Theory of Architecture at Princeton University w...
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