Testo Junkie

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Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era

By Beatriz Preciado

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Testo Junkie by Beatriz Preciado is a provocative diary documenting a year-long experiment of daily testosterone self-administration. Rather than aiming to become male, Preciado challenges societal norms on gender, using testosterone as a means of exploring pleasure beyond traditional boundaries and redefining identity through a molecular lens. This intimate account serves as both a personal journey and a critical examination of gender politics and pharmaceutical control.
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For one year, Beatriz Preciado gave doses of testosterone to herself every day. She writes, 'I don't take testosterone to transform myself into a man but to betray what society has wanted to make of me...to feel a form of pleasure that is post-pornographic, to add a molecular prostheses to my low-tech transgendered identity.'

Testo Junkie is a diary of transgression; Preciado's record of the use of herself as a lab rat. It recounts the defiant 'misuse' of a pharmaceutical product normally strictly controlled and investigates gender politics.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781558618374

Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 October 2013

Country: United States

Imprint: Feminist Press at The City University of New York

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 484g

Pages: 432

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About the Author

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 Celine Dion. He is also the author of several novels and works of nonfiction.