Notes from Paul Preciado's Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (2008, translated 2013)
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1. The "political management of living"
2. The "notion of the hormone"
3. 1941: Synthetic progesterone and estrogens
4. Robert Stoller's "masculinity" and "femininity"
5. 1946-49: Harod Gillies and Michael Dillon
6. 1952: George [Christine] Jorgenson
7. De-circumcision
8. The pharmacopornographic
9. "The theoreticians of post-Fordism"
10. "Biopolitical work"
11. Pleasure and value
12. Preciado on the porn industry
13. "The autopornographic body"
14. Pharmacopornographic capitalism
15. Psychotropic money
16. Potentia gaudendi
17. The body as fluid, dispersed system
18. Necropolitics
19. Sex and "technopolitical management"
20. Orgasmic power and the capacity for work
21. The disciplinary regime of heterosexuality
22. Preciado on Foucaultian "biopower"
23. "Sexopolitics"
24. The "sexual empire"
25. Wittig's "straight mind"
26. The anus and the social field
27. Thomas Laqueur's "Making Sex"
28. 1880: Coinage of "sexuality"
29. Technologies of "production of the body"
30. The advent of sexual difference
31. Somatechnics
32. The body's political potential
33. The technical construction of sexual difference
34. Physical genitals
35. Ideals of masculinity and femininity
36. Regimes of body production
37. "Biocodes"
38. Phalloplasty, vaginoplasty, rhinoplasty
39. The normative regime versus the proliferation of techniques
40. Oppression and laughter
41. Lesbians and revolution
42. The "brutal political arrangement" of gendered subjectivity
43. The body as platform
44. "Testosterone isn't masculinity"
45. Entheogenics
46. Witch hunts and colonial expropriation
47. "Medieval pharmacological traditions"
48. Recreating hallucinogenic ointments
49. Herbcraft and witchcraft
50. Witches vs experts
51. The Malleus Maleficarum
52. "Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture"
53. Women and the circuits of economy
54. Personhood and technology
55. The body as communication network
56. Endocrinology and hormonal theory
57. Sex hormone trafficking
58. The trafficking of human organs
59. Urine and hormones
60. Coded desire
61. The state, desire, and fantasy
62. Lesbian sexuality
63. The multiplicity of configurations
64. The goal of pornography
65. Pornography, the public, and the private
66. Pornography and drugs
67. "Porn envy" in the culture industry
68. Annie Sprinkle, and sexuality as performance
69. The hegemonic understanding of pornography
70. Pornographic desubjectification
71. "The social and cultural construction of sexual difference"
72. Teresa de Lauretis and "eccentric" feminism
73. "Technologies of gender"
74. Preciado on Butler
75. The concentration camp and biomaterial research
76. Hormonal classification
77. Estrogen, progesterone, and the pharmaceutical industry
78. The "fiction of biofemininity"
79. "Phallocracy"
80. Masculinity's power and femininity's regulation
81. Disease, post-World War 2
82. Sildenafil
83. 1951: Earliest prototype of the contraceptive pill
84. Eugenic uses of the Pill
85. "Sexual Chemistry"
86. "Building as cure"
87. 1955: The Pill trials
88. The FDA and the menstrual cycle
89. Pharmaceutical packaging
90. "Compliance packages"
91. Sue Ellen Case
92. Collage and corporal transformation
93. "Exquisite Corpse: Surrealism and the Black Dahlia Murder"
94. The Pill and the production of cosmetic femininity
95. Alliances between incompatible gender regimes
96. Hormonal treatment for cis males
97. Dominant public signifiers of gender
98. The "semiotechnical virilization" of women
99. Antiandrogens
100. "Chemical castration"
101. Anne Fausto-Sterling's "The Five Sexes"
102. State feminism vs transfeminism
103. Visions of a contraceptive feminism
104. Acquiring testosterone
105. Against white, colonial feminism
106. Ellen Willis and pro-sex feminism
107. Sex workers and antiporn feminism
108. The coining of "sex work"
109. The post-porn transfeminist aesthetic
110. The dominant recoding of "queer"
111. Snuff films
112. "Autovivisection"
113. "On Hashish"
114. "Dealing with cultural codes"
115. "Gender suspicion"
116. The "collective experience" of gender
117. Masculinity and power
118. Power and performance
119. Anatomical truth and cultural practices
120. "Sex, Drag, and Male Roles"
121. "Drag king knowledge"
122. Judith Butler's "Antigone's Claim"
123. "Hormonal identity"

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