Katherine Johnson's Sexuality: A Psychosocial Manifesto PDF

By Katherine Johnson

ISBN-10: 0745641318

ISBN-13: 9780745641317

ISBN-10: 0745641326

ISBN-13: 9780745641324

The modern research of sexuality too often finds itself at an deadlock, conceptualizing sexuality both psychologically or sociologically: sexologists and psychologists have tended to indicate to the organic origins of sexuality underpinned by means of hormones, drives and, so much lately, genetics; against this, historians and sociologists aspect to the social box because the defining strength that shapes the meanings given to sexuality and sexual experience.

Confronting the constraints and demanding situations this deadlock poses, Katherine Johnson argues for a psychosocial strategy that rethinks the connection among psychic and social geographical regions within the box of sexuality, with no decreasing it to both. Weaving via an expanse of theoretical and empirical examples drawn from sociology, psychology, queer and cultural experiences, she produces an leading edge, transdisciplinary point of view on sexual identities, subjectivities and politics that makes an unique contribution to key debates starting from id politics and homosexual marriage, to psychological well-being ‘risks’ and queer adolescence suicide.

Embracing rules from developmental psychology, social constructionist sociology, social and important psychology, psychoanalysis and queer concept, this unique e-book can be invaluable studying for college kids and students of sexuality around the social sciences.

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