Sexuality : a psychosocial manifesto / Katherine Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Katherine (Principal lecturer in psychology), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual orientation--Psychological aspects.

Sexual orientation.

Sexual orientation--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

x, 213 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Polity, 2015.

Summary:

The contemporary study of sexuality too often finds itself at an impasse, conceptualizing sexuality either psychologically or sociologically; sexologists and psychologists have tended to point to the biological origins of sexuality underpinned by drives, hormones and, most recently, genetics; in contrast, historians and sociologists point to the social held as the defining force that shapes the meanings given to sexuality and sexual experience. Confronting The limitations and challenges this impasse poses, Katherine Johnson argues for a psychosocial approach that rethinks the relationship between psychic and social realms in the held of sexuality, without reducing it to either Weaving through an expanse of theoretical and empirical examples drawn from sociology, psychology, queer and cultural studies, she produces en innovative, transdisciplinary perspective on sexual identities, subjectivities and politics that makes an original contribution to key debates, ranging from identity politics and gay marriage to mental health risks' and queer youth suicide Embracing ideas from developmental psychology, social constructionist sociology, social and critical psychology, psychoanalysis and queer theory, this accessible and highly original book will be necessary reading for students and scholars of sexuality across the social sciences. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introducing Sexuality: towards the psychosocial 1

Sexuality: between psychology and historicism 1

Transdisciplinearity, subjectivity and psychosocial studies 5

Towards a psychosocial manifesto for sexuality 10

2 Developing Sexuality 17

Freud and psychosexual development 19

The problem with Freud? 21

Biological models and sexual orientation 24

Hormones, foetal development and gay babies 26

Neuroscience, gay brains and genetics 28

Developmental models of sexual identity formation 34

Coming out: developing a homosexual identity 35

Bisexuality and the disruption of binary sexual identities 38

Heterosexual identity formation: one model fits all? 44

Developing sexuality and the psychosocial subject 49

3 Constructing Sexuality 52

Coming out of oppression 55

Social constructionism: roles, scripts and stones 60

Social constructionism: discourses of sexuality 72

Constructing sexuality, reconstructing psychology? 79

Constructing sexuality, inters ectionality and the psychosocial subject 83

4 Queering Sexuality 86

Finding a new place to begin: the emergence of queer theory and activism 89

Queer icons: the influence of Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 92

Queering race, hybridity and mixedness 96

Queering psychology: critical psychology, critically queer 99

Theorizing queer subjectivity, killing off psychology? 106

Desiring subjects, psychoanalysis and its place in queer theory 109

The turn to affect and the return to psychology 114

Queering sexuality and the psychosocial subject 120

5 Affecting Sexuality 122

Shame and sexuality 124

Shame and media representations of queer lives 126

Comedy queer 128

Reading Derek Faye 129

Reading Daffyd Thomas 133

'Coming out' of shame: queer politics and suicidal distress 138

Shame, sexuality and the psychosocial subject 146

6 Transforming Sexuality 148

Poststructuralism and the paradox of identity 151

Worlds won and lost 153

Reparative readings, hybridiry, community 157

For and against gay marriage 158

Ambivalence and affective dissonance 162

Affective activism, community and queer mental health 166

Transforming sexuality and the psychosocial subject 173

7 A Psychosocial Manifesto for Queer Futures 175

Transdisciplinarity: theory and methods 176

Identity, subjectivity and the politics of marginalization 177

Queer futures? 178.

ISBN:

9780745641317

0745641318

0745641326

9780745641324

OCLC:

898313778

Publisher Number:

99961630282