his is the third issue of the journal. It brings together a selection of papers which tackle sex and sexualities from a variety of perspectives - sexual abuse, gay and lesbian sexuality, transexuality, the sexually assertive heterosexual woman and the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. The contributors in this issue focus on the psychologisation of sexuality; this is not anew topic but it is a crucial one for critical psychologists, given the regulative role of psychological practices at present.
Sex and Sexualities includes: Helen Keane on sex addiction; Sasho Lambevski on gay male desire; Paula Reavey and Sam Warner on women survivors of child sexual abuse; Peter Emerson and Stephen Frosh on sexually abusive boys; Katrina Roen on the interpretation of transexuality as being in the wrong body; Nicola Gavey and Marion Doherty on the sexually assertive heterosexual woman; Annie Potts on the place of orgasm in the work of Deleuze and Guattari.
Contributors Norman Anderssen, Marion Doherty, Peter Emerson, Stephen Frosh, Nicola Gavey, Sabine Hark, Helen Keane, Sasho Alexander Lambevski, Julie Mitchell, Annie Potts, Paula Reavey, Katrina Roen, Joanna Ryan, Cathy Urwin, Sam Warner.
Valerie Walkerdine is Foundation Professor of Critical Psychology, Centre for Critical Psychology, University of Western Sydney. Her books include Daddy's Girl: Young Girls and Popular Culture, Macmillan 1997; Changing the Subject: Psychology, Social Regulation and Subjectivity, Routledge 1998; and Mass Hysteria: Critical Psychology and Media Studies, Macmillan 2000.
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