Introduction

With this issue, we begin Volume Two of Studies in Gender and Sexuality. The journal has had a robust first year. We have published paradigm-stretching, clinically grounded essays on embodiment, on male and female homosexuality and bisexuality, on femininity and desire, on gender theory, on Freud's bourgeois family, and on contemporary nontraditional kinship arrangements. We have also published clinically focused, theoretically grounded papers on the analysis and management of erotic transference and on gender in the clinical situation. In another register, embarking on our ongoing project of tracking the intellectual history of psychoanalytic work in gender and sexuality, we have published critical reflections on the work of Jessica Benjamin by Stephen Mitchell and Judith Butler and retrospective reflections on their own work by Nancy Chodorow and Louise Kaplan. And we have begun our cross-disciplinary engagements with papers on race and gender and with an illustrated essay on artistic renderings of fetishism.

In Volume Two, we expand our work in the visual arts with illustrated essays on the oeuvre of the surrealist woman photographer Claude Cahun (this issue), and later with an exploration of the racial archetype of “Mammy” in film and other cultural forms. In the clinical realm, we expand our focus into child work with a paper on boyhood homophobia (this issue), followed by papers on developmental theory, on the psychic meanings of infertility and pregnancy in the treatment of a lesbian woman, on theorizing and treating violence and victimization and on recovered memory. We also begin an extended inquiry into transgender and transsexual categories