Sexuality (eBook)

Katherine Johnson is Head of Psychology and Psychotherapy Division, School of Applied Social Science, and member of the LGBT Queer Life Research Hub at the University of Brighton

1. Introducing Sexuality: towards the psychosocial
2. Developing Sexuality
3. Constructing Sexuality
4. Queering Sexuality
5. Affecting Sexuality
6. Transforming Sexuality
7. A Psychosocial Manifesto for Queer Futures

"Any student of sexuality will appreciate the vast wealth of sources which Johnson has compiled in this book, and her arguments make an excellent contribution to that much-theorised conceptual impasse. Johnson's lucid style and clarity of thought do also make this book suitable for those with only an intermediate level of knowledge (it would serve, for example, as a much better introduction to the field than Butler's abstruse language)."
--LSE Reviews of Books

"Katherine Johnson aims to 'queer' false polarities within the study of sexuality. She attempts to evaluate how sexuality can be studied more holistically. Always on the side of social justice, Johnson's book is also a political engagement with sexuality. This highly ethical book should be required reading for those working inbetween and across disciplines, and those entrenched within institutional paradigms who cannot see the wood for the trees."
--Sally Munt, University of Sussex

"Appreciative of social constructionist approaches while recognizing their limits, Katherine Johnson clears the way for a much-needed psychosocial analysis of sexuality. Along the way, she takes us on a tour of many of the field's crucial debates gay genes, the origins of desire, the affective turn, among others steadfastly refusing the reductionism that all too frequently plagues dominant paradigms."
--Arlene Stein, Rutgers University