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With this volume, Studies in Gender and Sexuality continues to develop its editorial reach and to deepen its interdisciplinary exploration of classic topics in gender and sexuality.
We are excited to announce several appointments to our masthead. Contributing Editor Lisa Baraitser, Ph.D., will join Katie Gentile, Stephen Hartman, and Eyal Rozmarin as our fourth Co-Editor. Dr. Baraitser is Reader in Psychosocial Studies and Head of the Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London. She writes on motherhood and the maternal; feminism and psychoanalysis; and philosophies of ethics, affect, temporality, and event. Her papers have appeared in this journal, and she is author of Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption (Routledge, 2009) and is a psychodynamic psychotherapist in independent practice.
Our new Associate Editor is Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D., whose outstanding work on gender-variant children will be familiar to many.
To the Contributing Editor group we welcome Julie Leavitt, M.D.; Michael O’Rourke, Ph.D.; Noreen Giffney, Ph.D.; Nina Katzander, Ph.D.; Anne Mulhall, Ph.D.; and Miri Rozmarin, Ph.D.
And, finally, Velleda Ceccoli, Ph.D.; Don Romesburg, Ph.D.; and Wayne Koestenbaum, Ph.D., have agreed to become members of our Editorial Board.
With this issue too, we continue our coverage of controversial topics. Here we juxtapose work from both ends of the continuum between psychoanalysis and politics, a range that marks our purview and mission. At one end is the classic matter of infantile sexuality, which Freud stipulated as innate and which psychoanalysis, as though haunted by a traumatic memory, seems to forget and then remember over and over again. At the continuum’s other end is the question of power, which Freud likewise deemed crucial to psychic process and illness when he initially attributed hysterical symptoms to experiences of incest. From this insight, however, he backed off in order to focus on the significance of fantasy for the inte