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

Beatriz Preciado

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558618376 ISBN 13: 9781558618374

Publisher: The Feminist Press, 2013

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.' This 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.

Review:

"Preciado's indomitable document on the 'pharmacopornographic regime' is buttressed by a practical experiment in which, over a three-month period, she douses herself daily in Testogel." --Sam Stolton's Top Reads of 2015 in 3:AM Magazine

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