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

by Paul B. Preciado

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558618376
• ISBN13: 9781558618374
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Feminist Press
• Length: 429 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 7.9"