The Explanation for Everything: Essays on Sexual Subjectivity

by Paul Morrison

Book Overview

"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, The Explanation for Everything seeks to account for the explanatory power attributed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814756743
• ISBN13: 9780814756744
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"