The Explanation For Everything : Essays on Sexual Subjectivity / Paul Morrison.
Morrison, Paul, author.
2002
HQ76.25 .M667 2001
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Title The Explanation For Everything : Essays on Sexual Subjectivity / Paul Morrison.
Author Morrison, Paul, author.
ISBN 9780814759752
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814759752.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2002]
Copyright ©2002
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.18574/nyu/9780814759752.001.0001 doi
Call Number HQ76.25 .M667 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.76/6
Summary "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 to homosexuality, and its relationship to compulsory heterosexuality. In the process, Morrison presents a scathing indictment of psychoanalysis and its impact on the study of sexuality. In bold but graceful leaps, Morrison applies his critique to a diversity of examples: subjectivity in Oscar Wilde, the cultural construction and reception of AIDS, the work of Robert Mapplethorpe, the practice of bodybuilding, and the contemporary reception of the sexual politics of fascism. Analytical, witty and astute, The Explanation for Everything will challenge and amuse, establishing Paul Morrison as one of our most exciting cultural critics.
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Series Sexual Cultures ; ; 31
In New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780814756737
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 The Explanation for Everything (Bad)
2 Motion Pictures
3 End Pleasure
4 Coffee Table Sex
5 Muscles
6 Lavender Fascists
Notes
Index
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