Countersexual Manifesto / / Paul B. Preciado.
Countersexual Manifesto is an outrageous yet rigorous work of trans theory, a performative literary text, and an insistent call to action. Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done with and to the body, Paul B. Preciado offers a provocative challenge to even the most radical claims ab...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Critical Life Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 15 b&w illustrations |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. COUNTERSEXUAL SOCIETY -- 2. COUNTERSEXUAL REVERSAL PRACTICES -- 3. THEORIES -- 4. COUNTERSEXUAL READING EXERCISES -- AUTHOR'S NOTE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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Summary: | Countersexual Manifesto is an outrageous yet rigorous work of trans theory, a performative literary text, and an insistent call to action. Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done with and to the body, Paul B. Preciado offers a provocative challenge to even the most radical claims about gender, sexuality, and desire.Preciado lays out mock constitutional principles for a countersexual revolution that will recognize genitalia as technological objects and offers step-by-step illustrated instructions for dismantling the heterocentric social contract. He calls theorists such as Derrida, Foucault, Butler, and Haraway to task for not going nearly far enough in their attempts to deconstruct the naturalization of normative identities and behaviors. Preciado's claim that the dildo precedes the penis-that artifice, not nature, comes first in the history of sexuality-forms the basis of his demand for new practices of sexual emancipation. He calls for a world of sexual plasticity and fabrication, of bio-printers and "dildonics," and he invokes countersexuality's roots in the history of sex toys, pornography, and drag in order to rupture the supposedly biological foundations of the heterocentric regime. His claims are extreme, but supported through meticulous readings of philosophy and theory, as well as popular culture. The Manifesto is now available in English translation for its twentieth anniversary, with a new introduction by Preciado. Countersexual Manifesto will disrupt feminism and queer theory and scandalize us all with its hyperbolic but deadly serious defiance of everything we've been told about sex. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780231548687 9783110606607 9783110610765 9783110664232 9783110610130 9783110606485 |
DOI: | 10.7312/prec17562 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Paul B. Preciado. |