In this Book
- The Explanation For Everything: Essays on Sexual Subjectivity
- Book
- 2001
- Published by: NYU Press
"The claim 'I'm straight' is the psychosexual analogue of 'The check is in the mail': if you need to say it, your credit or creditability is already in doubt." So begins Paul Morrison's dazzling polemic, which takes as its point of departure Foucault's famous remark that sex is "the explanation for everything."
Combining psychoanalytic, literary, and queer theory,
Analytical, witty and astute,
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- 2. Motion Pictures
- pp. 17-53
- 3. End Pleasure
- pp. 54-81
- 4. Coffee Table Sex
- pp. 82-112
- 5. Muscles
- pp. 113-139
- 6. Lavender Fascists
- pp. 140-174
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- p. 205