Women & Performance a journal of feminist theory· 2014Q3
Testo junkie: sex, drugs, and biopolitics in the pharmacopornographic era
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Beatriz Preciado's "Testo Junkie" critically revises feminist gender theories by exploring the self-experimentation with testosterone and its implications for biopolitics and the pharmacopornographic era.
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Key points
- Critically revises feminist theories of gender, moving beyond social constructionism.
- Explores self-experimentation with testosterone as a method of inquiry.
- Introduces the concept of the 'pharmacopornographic era'.
- Examines the intersection of sex, drugs, biopolitics, and gender identity.
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Abstract
Beatriz Preciado critically revises and reanimates the social constructionist consensus of feminist theories of gender in Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era. B...
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