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

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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.

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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 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, Bookforum

“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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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1558618376
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Feminist Press at CUNY; English-Language Edition (September 17, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 429 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781558618374
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1558618374
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8 inches
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2014
    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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  • Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2017
    Great read for my class. Informational.
  • Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2014
    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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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2015
    brilliant - a necessary read
  • Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2020
    Engaging, and well-evidenced analysis that satisfyingly critiques, extends, and corporealizes -including various techno-intimacies - the theories of Butler and Foucault.
  • Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2014
    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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  • Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2019
    That doesn't make it any less pretentious or exhausting.

    Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed some parts of this book. The sex scenes are steamy. The theory is engaging. It's definitely full of new ideas. It's hard to appreciate those ideas, though, when the tone of the prose suggests that Preciado wrote the whole thing in one coke-fueled frenzy, typing with one hand and .... doing something else with the other.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2015
    A really excellent read. Intimate and provacative, articulate and well researched. A must for anyone interested in gender politics

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    5.0 out of 5 stars Uma sociedade farmacopornográfica
    Reviewed in Brazil on July 11, 2021
    Mescla de teoria - de admirável erudição - e prática pessoal, o autor narra o percurso de sua transição de gênero, traçando uma ousada análise do contexto atual no que concerne a formulação de identidades. Sua formulação do conceito do complexo 'farmacopornográfico', com suas implicações políticas e econômicas, de se constituir em referência obrigatória para a compreensão do tema.
  • alejandra
    5.0 out of 5 stars Buenísimo
    Reviewed in Mexico on September 17, 2020
    Excelente libro en perfecto estado
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect
    Reviewed in Germany on February 29, 2020
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    Reviewed in Canada on January 22, 2018
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Un'analisi brillante della congiuntura tra sessualitá, industria farmaceutica, capitalismo liquido, industria pornografia.
    Reviewed in Italy on January 18, 2017
    Paul Preciado è una figura brillante, e questo testo è un punto di rottura con le analisi contemporanee su nuove forme di capitalismo e corporeità. La sua "era pornofarmacologica" è un concetto che dispiega la congiuntura tra elementi della dimensione umana - e post umana - della storia contemporanea globale. Imperdibile.