This article explores the meanings of gender and sexuality from the analysis of academic productions in the programs of undergraduation and graduation from psychology students of PUC/ Goiás. Based on discourse analysis and as epistemology social constructionism combined with feminist theories, the research investigates the production contained in the title indexes: gender, sexuality, homosexuality and/ or homosexual(s) in the period 1993 to 2008. The reason for this choice is due to the fact that productions are privileged sources of information and formation. The universities, as places of knowledge reproduction, often operate as sources that plead the status of truth, prescribing moral forms of behavior to subjects, what has prompted scholars to investigate the discourses that circulate in the academic circles. The theoretical perspectives privileged in the description of the object, the central areas and themes are analyzed in this study, as well as the advances and shortcomings of academic production, which are taken as opposed to the proposal offered by the course curriculum. Thus, we conclude that in the context of the academic production analyzed, the teaching of psychology has focused predominantly on studies of identities in a normative, polarized and pathologized vision of gender and sexualities.
Psychology; Social constructionism; Gender; Sexuality; Homosexuality
