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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Feminist Press
Published: 09/17/2013
ISBN: 9781558618374
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.50w x 1.00d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/26/2013
Library Journal 10/15/2013 pg. 118