Can the Monster Speak?

Name: Can the Monster Speak?
ISBN: 9781635901511

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In "Can the Monster Speak?", Paul B. Preciado critically examines the historical and systemic pathologization of non-normative sexualities and gender identities within psychoanalysis. This powerful essay challenges the foundational assumptions of psychiatric frameworks, advocating for a radical re-evaluation of how society understands sex and gender. It gives voice to those historically silenced and labeled as 'monsters' by traditional thought.

Avg. reading time: 1h 58m
Prose complexity: 10/10

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Paul B. Preciado

Spanish philosopher and queer theorist. Preciado is a trans man. ---------- Beatriz Preciado (Burgos, 1970), es filósofa y activista queer. Tras licenciarse cum laude en Filosofía por la Universidad de Comillas, obtiene un Máster de Filosofía Contemporánea y Teoría de Género en la New School for Social Research de Nueva York, donde estudia con Agnes Heller y Jacques Derrida. Actualmente realiza el doctorado en Filosofía y Teoría de la Arquitectura en la Universidad de Princeton. También es...

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Frank Wynne is a literary translator who brings French and Spanish works to English readers. He is known for translating Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex 2 and Pedro Almodóvar’

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