TY  - BOOK
AU  - Preciado,Paul B.
AU  - Dunn,Kevin Gerry
AU  - Halberstam,Jack
TI  - Countersexual Manifesto
T2  - Critical Life Studies
SN  - 9780231175623
AV  - HQ12 .P7313 2018
U1  - 305.3 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - Sex
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; FOREWORD --; INTRODUCTION --; 1. COUNTERSEXUAL SOCIETY --; 2. COUNTERSEXUAL REVERSAL PRACTICES --; 3. THEORIES --; 4. COUNTERSEXUAL READING EXERCISES --; AUTHOR'S NOTE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/prec17562
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231548687
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231548687/original
ER  -