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"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, Beatriz 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 her own use of testosterone every day for one year, and its mesmerizing impact on her body as well as her imagination.Beatriz Preciado has become one of the leading thinkers in the study of gender and sexuality. She is currently a professor of political history of the body, gender theory, and history of performance at Universite; Paris VIII. She received her PhD in the theory of architecture at Princeton University, and a master of philosophy and contemporary theory of gender at the New School for Social Research in New York"--… (more)
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And the interpersonal drama, and lots of details and intellectualizing about Preciado's sex life and drug use, and so on and so forth. I don't think that was the point, but you know what, it wasn't contrary to the point either, and I'm here for it.
Either the translator or Preciado himself does not know what "cis" means; I understood more when I realized that every occurrence of "cis woman" was supposed to be "dyadic female-assigned person." There's a limit to how much of the confusion between those two things you can chalk up to Preciado being in denial about being trans at the time he wrote it; some of those sentences just don't make sense otherwise.