Recently added articles from Studies in Gender and Sexuality:
Editors' Note
Apr 01, 2007; Dimen, Muriel; Hadley, Martha ... With pride, we announce the first recipient of the annual Symonds Prize: Meg Jay, Ph.D., for "Melancholy Femininity and Obsessive-Compulsive Masculinity: Sex Differences in Melancholy Gender." Dr. Jay is Clinical Psychologist in Private Practice, Berkeley, California; Lecturer, University of ...
Melancholy Femininity and Obsessive-Compulsive Masculinity: Sex Differences in Melancholy Gender
Apr 01, 2007; Jay, Meg ... The author offers a revision of melancholy gender (Butler, 1995) in which sex differences are theorized. Drawing on contemporary psychoanalytic feminist theory that emphasizes the mother's role as primary caretaker and as pre-Oedipal object for both boys and girls, the author suggests that, in ...
Toward Less Fixed Internal Transformations of Gender Commentary on: Melancholy Femininity and Obsessive-Compulsive Masculinity: Sex Differences in Melancholy Gender by Meg Jay, Ph.D.
Apr 01, 2007; Balsam, Rosemary ... While highly commending this cross-disciplinary exercise and agreeing with Jay and Butler that children may indeed mourn the loss of erotics with same-sex parents as they identify and develop in a gendered fashion, this author highlights, in both Butler and Jay's interesting further refinements ...
Melancholia, Ambivalent Presence and the Cost of Gender Commentary on Paper by Meg Jay
Apr 01, 2007; Salamon, Gayle ... I would like to engage three aspects of Jay's argument: first, I want to suggest that there is an important distinction to be made between melancholia and depression, and that Butler's melancholy gender depends on this distinction, which emphasizes the social and political dimensions of ...
Straw Men, Straight Women, and the Role of Ambivalence in Melancholy Gender: Reply to Balsam and Salamon
Apr 01, 2007; Jay, Meg ... When I submitted the final draft of "Melancholy Femininity, Obsessive-Compulsive Masculinity" to Studies in Gender and Sexuality, I was nine months pregnant with my first baby. As I was writing the paper, I wondered if I might feel differently about the whole thing-the notion of the mother as ...
Moments in Laplanche's Theory of Sexuality
Apr 01, 2007; Stein, Ruth ... This paper is a brief introduction to some of Laplanche's thinking, as well as a commentary on his essay that is published here. Some salient issues in Laplanche's theory are introduced, such as the decentering of the subject and the prioritizing of the other, the postulation of the "reality of ...
Gender, Sex, and the Sexual
Apr 01, 2007; Laplanche, Jean ... Laplanche distinguishes the sexual [le sexuel] and the sexuated [le sexué]. He goes on to ask whether the current tendency to speak of gender identity merely a lexical change or something more profound. If it is a change, is it positive or the sign of a repression? If the latter, where is the ...