As the first book-length investigation of Thomas Pynchon's writing to put the topics of sex and gender at its core, this book moves beyond binary debates about whether to see Pynchon as liberatory or conservative, instead examining how his preoccupation with sex and gender conditions his fiction's whole worldview.

As the first book-length investigation of Thomas Pynchon's writing to put the topics of sex and gender at its core, this book moves beyond binary debates about whether to see Pynchon as liberatory or conservative, instead examining how his preoccupation with sex and gender conditions his fiction's whole worldview.