Countersexual Manifesto

Paul B. Preciado

Published by Columbia University Press 2018

Countersexual Manifesto

Paul B. Preciado
Translated by: Kevin Gerry Dunn
Preface by: Jack Halberstam

In the series Critical Life Studies

https://doi.org/10.7312/prec17562

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Halberstam Jack :

Jack Halberstam (PhD, English Literature, Minnesota) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and of Gender Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of several books, including Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon, 2012), Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (California, 2018), and Female Masculinity (Duke, 1998). He specializes in queer theory, cultural studies, gender studies, and feminist theory.Paul B. Preciado is a philosopher, curator, and transgender activist. He is curator of public programs for the largest international European art and culture exhibition, documenta 14 (Athens and Kassel). Preciado’s books in English include Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (2013) and Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitics (2014). He lives between Paris, Barcelona, and Athens.

Kevin Gerry Dunn is a translator of Spanish-language fiction and academic writing on gender, art, and immigration. His recent translations include works by Josefina Fernández, Ramón Arturo Gutiérrez, and Cristian Perfumo.

Jack Halberstam is visiting professor of gender studies and English at Columbia University and is the author of a number of books, including most recently, Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (2018).

Reviews

Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens, ecosexual artists and educators:
Countersexual Manifesto is a well-lubricated double dong: phantasmagorical poetry on one end, penetrating theory on the other, and a thorough examination of body politics being the shaft. Each sentence delivers a thrust, deep inside, that elicits a yes, yes, yes! Bend over, insert this book, and enjoy the ride.

Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts:
Paul Preciado’s work has been immensely important to me, as well as to countless others. It’s so fantastic, then, that we finally have his first book on offer. Like so much that he has offered since, Countersexual Manifesto is freewheeling and learned, rabble-rousing and meticulous, spirited and essential. Whether you want to argue with it, mine it, or become a convert to its call, you should definitively read it, keep it by your side.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
FOREWORD Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. COUNTERSEXUAL SOCIETY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. COUNTERSEXUAL REVERSAL PRACTICES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
3. THEORIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
4. COUNTERSEXUAL READING EXERCISES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
AUTHOR’S NOTE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
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Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Illustrations
- Other: 15 b&w illustrations

eBook

Published: January 14, 2019
ISBN: 9780231548687