The multiplicity of configurations

 
Preciado, stating it plainly on 263: "There are not two sexes, but a multiplicity of genetic, hormonal, chromosomal, sexual, and sensual configurations. There is no empirical truth to male or female gender beyond an assemblace of normative cultural fictions."
 
also stated plainly on 105: "Whereas the disciplinary system of the nineteenth century considered sex to be natural, definitive, unchangeable, and transcendental, pharmacographic gender seems to be synthetic, malleable, variable, open to transformation, and imitable, as well as produced and reproduced technically"

> from Paul Preciado's Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (2008, translated 2013)

> tagged with #trans_studies, #genetics, #body, #sexuality, #gender

> created April 16, 2024 at 7:46:56 AM


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