Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era English-Language Edition Edition

by Paul B. Preciado (Author), Bruce Benderson (Translator)

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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, 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.

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Testo 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

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“Testo Junkie is a wild ride. Preciado leaves the identity politics of taking T to others, and instead, in the tradition of William S. Burroughs, Kathy Acker, and Jean Genet, he conducts a wild textual experiment. The results are spectacular . . . The gendered body will never be the same again.”—Jack Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure

“Paul B. Preciado’s brilliant book oscillates between high theory and the surging rush of testosterone. Flush with elegant theoretical formulations, lascivious sex narratives, and astute histories of gender, Testo Junkie is a key text to comprehend the deep interconnectedness of sex and drugs today.”—José Esteban Muñoz, author of Cruising Utopia

“Testo Junkie is a wild ride. Preciado leaves the identity politics of taking T to others, and instead, in the tradition of William S. Burroughs, Kathy Acker, and Jean Genet, he conducts a wild textual experiment. The results are spectacular . . . The gendered body will never be the same again.”―Jack Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure

“Paul B. Preciado’s brilliant book oscillates between high theory and the surging rush of testosterone. Flush with elegant theoretical formulations, lascivious sex narratives, and astute histories of gender, Testo Junkie is a key text to comprehend the deep interconnectedness of sex and drugs today.”―José Esteban Muñoz, author of Cruising Utopia

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Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY; English-Language Edition edition (September 17, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1558618376
ISBN-13: 978-1558618374
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1 x 8 inches
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Average Customer Review: 11 customer reviews
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TESTO JUNKIE Takes On Drugs, Gender, Pharma-Shifting and Porn in the Name of Self-Realignment

November 18, 2014

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Experimental. Graphic. Intellectual. Sexual. Even political in the personal sense. TESTO JUNKIE is a work of loss, grief, emergence, fighting against expectation, seeking one's essence & a whole lot of graphic stuff that might startle the more sedate open-minders. But as a way to challenge beliefs, realign gender definition and create an arc where urges are reduced to almost reflexes and stripped of emotion or cognition, TESTO JUNKIE provides an on-ramp to broader ways of viewing the world and the possibiities.
Hard to read in places, shatteringly real and painful, Beatriz Preciado pulls no punches in her bondage, testosterone and identity quest -- but it is in the name of understanding, not prurience Empathy rises from the shock; clarity settles the chaos and the churn.
As a work of writing, its execution is jagged and visceral -- and provides a window into a world most of us will never glimpse let alone experience. Bravo!

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August 26, 2015

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brilliant - a necessary read

March 17, 2017

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Great read for my class. Informational.

May 30, 2014

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I love how it is personal and clinical, historical and academic. It's definitely one of those books where I go OMG THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD at random intervals.

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June 19, 2016

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Read for class at UC Davis - overall good read, engaging.

Intimate and provocative

September 14, 2015

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A really excellent read. Intimate and provacative, articulate and well researched. A must for anyone interested in gender politics

The academic side of things is all the better for its obvious relation to real life

July 22, 2014

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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-medicating with testosterone, grieving a recently deceased friend, and of a developing romantic relationship with another feminist theory superstar, Virginie Despentes. Together, it makes for an invigorating read that never lets you forget the reason for such intense theorizing in the first place--it all goes back to personal liberties, and to personal oppressions. The academic side of things is all the better for its obvious relation to real life.

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January 21, 2015

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Dryest most boring read of my life.

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