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Studies in Gender and Sexuality began with a passionate vision. On the ground, the intellectual landscape of sex and gender studies might appear as a series of self-contained, albeit neighboring, communities. But if, as from an airplane, we take the long view, we can see a geographical tapestry of textures and colors and shapes and patterns. The journal's subtitle, Psychoanalysis · Cultural Studies · Treatment · Research, names that sometimes undulating, sometimes discontinuous spectrum: multiple takes on gender and sexuality, with psychoanalysis as their fulcrum.
Psychoanalysis itself is susceptible to similar re-viewing: as information whizzes through the ether, communication increases among formerly insular schools of thought, all of which have found representation in these pages. Stepping further back, as this interdisciplinary journal does, even the border between psychoanalysis and the academy begins to look as though it might be a join instead of a divide. Not only do we then promote interchange among conflicting psychoanalytic perspectives, we also seek meetings between the different languages of consulting room and seminar room. No single voice can say everything: academics and clinicians read different Freuds, and Kleins, and Winnicotts, and these differences can, if given air, be enlightening for all.
From another vantage point, this journal's matrix for diversity issues from intellectual history. For one thing, the off-again, on-again relationship between psychoanalysis and feminism has