The Explanation For Everything : : Essays on Sexual Subjectivity / / Paul Morrison.
"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 fa...
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