Symonds Prize at Studies in Gender and Sexuality: Winner and New Contest
The Editors of Studies in Gender and Sexuality proudly announce the winner of the first Symonds Prize: Meg Jay, PhD, “Melancholy Femininity and Obsessive-Compulsive Masculinity: Sex Differences in Melancholy Gender,” Vol. 8, # 2 (2007).
They also announce the second annual competition for the best essay on a topic related to issues of gender, sexuality, or both. The essay may engage clinical or theoretical questions. The writer may be new or seasoned. The topic may be cutting-edge or devoted to any of the time-honored problems in psychoanalysis. Examples of topics include but are not limited to:
Gender in the work place, everyday life, and politics
Sex and gender in clinic and in culture
Gender and sex in contemporary cinema or theater, literature or art
Sex and food
Gay marriage and civil union
Race and gender in clinical and cultural representation
The materiality of sex: from sex toys to who does what with whom
Seduction and consent
Gender and sexuality in disability or illness
Gender and prisons
A cultural studies approach to pornography
A cultural studies approach to recent television (“The Real World,” “The L Word”…)
Torture, war crimes, and gender (Abu Ghraib, Rwanda…)
Gender, sexuality and the history of psychoanalysis
Abortion politics and rights
In the spirit of the journal’s mandate, we are interested in essays that vary in form and content. Submission could include papers that are multidisciplinary. We are open to orthodoxy and heterodoxy. Even to their combinations.
The contest will be judged by members of the journal’s Editorial Board. The winner of the Symonds Prize will receive $500, and the essay will be published in the journal.
Now in its seventh year of publication, SGS ( http://www.analyticpress.com/sgs.html) has served as an interdisciplinary forum for reexamining gender and sexuality. It was launched with paradigm-stretching articles on male and female homosexuality and bisexuality; femininity and the place of desire; postmodern gender theory; and the erotic transference. Since then, SGS has been at the leading edge of sex and gender theory. It has explored many clinical, developmental, and cultural topics – boyhood homophobia; bisexuality; infertility; gender jokes, transsexual and transgender categories of identity and experience – and ranged into the visual arts, cinema, and popular culture.
Submissions (title page to list author’s name and contact info; manuscript to list only title on first page and as running head) should be sent to:
Martha Hadley, Ph.D.
Executive Editor