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Book SynopsisCountersexual 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.
Trade ReviewPaul 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. -- Maggie Nelson, author of
The ArgonautsCountersexual 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.
-- Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens, ecosexual artists and educators
Countersexual Manifesto is a utopian cry to manifest revolutionary change in the face of necropolitical practices and planetary destruction. -- RL Goldberg * Los Angeles Review of Books *
Rather than calling for a revolution, Preciado’s
Manifesto argues the revolution has already begun. * Advocate *
Preciado offers a refreshingly radical take on recognizing and renegotiating supposedly biological scripts to support inclusivity, diversity, and equity...the work is rewarding in its refreshing take on the queer history of sexual technologies and gender development. The positionality and layout of the book suggest
that it is truly centered on organizing, bringing to life many of the core tenets of queer theory in accessible and tangible ways. * RGWS *
Table of ContentsForeword, by Jack Halberstam
Introduction
1. Countersexual Society
2. Countersexual Reversal Practices
3. Theories
4. Countersexual Reading Exercise
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
