Symonds Prize

Symonds Prize
Studies in Gender and Sexuality Extends Deadline for Submissions
Extended Deadline: September 1, 2008

The Editors of Studies in Gender and Sexuality, through the generosity of the Alexandra and Martin Symonds Foundation, announce the third 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, including:


Gender in the work place, everyday life, and politics
Sex, gender, and clinical considerations
Gender and sex in contemporary cinema or theater, literature or art
Sex and food
Gay marriage and civil union
Race, sex, gender in the clinical encounter and in 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," "Deadwood," …)
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 will receive $500, and the essay will be published in the journal.

Now in its eighth year of publication, SGS http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1524-0657 is at the leading edge of contemporary theorizing on sex and gender. An interdisciplinary forum, it has explored a variety of clinical, developmental, and cultural topics – erotic transference and countertransference; boyhood homophobia; postmodern gender theory; femininity and the place of desire; bisexuality; infertility; gender jokes, transsexual and transgender categories of identity and experience. And it ranges as well into the visual arts, cinema, and popular culture.

Submissions should be sent to:
Martha Hadley, Ph.D.
Executive Editor
SGandS@earthlink.net
Deadline: September 1, 2008

The 2008 Ralph Roughton Paper Award

The Committee on Gay & Lesbian Issues

of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Announces



The 2008 Ralph Roughton Paper Award





In honor of the founding Chairperson of the Committee on Gay and Lesbian Issues, the Ralph Roughton Paper Award was established in 1998 to give formal recognition for outstanding contributions to the psychoanalytic understanding of gay men and lesbians, and was expanded in 2007 to include bisexual and transgender issues. The award is intended to encourage psychoanalytic writers to address gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues and to increase awareness and understanding within the psychoanalytic community. The award is presented annually, and carries with it a cash prize of $500.



The winning author will be invited to present his/her paper at the 2009 Winter Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association in January.

The winner may submit the paper for review by Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and, if accepted, it will be published as the winner of the Ralph Roughton Award.



Submission Guidelines: Papers must be unpublished (but may have been presented at professional meetings) and must conform to the Preparation of Manuscript guidelines outlined by Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, with the exception that the length should not exceed 30 double-spaced typed pages. Paper submissions are welcome from anyone regardless of institutional affiliation.



Entries must be submitted electronically no later than August 1, 2008.
Email one Word document containing the manuscript with all references to the author deleted, and email another Word document containing the author's name, e-mail address, address, phone number, and any Institutional affiliation to:



Gary Grossman, Ph.D.

Chair, Ralph Roughton Paper Prize

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