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With Volume 16, Studies in Gender and Sexuality continues to enhance its editorial reach and to mine its interdisciplinary range.
We are pleased to announce two new Contributing Editors. Jade McGleughlin, L.I.C.S.W., is a Supervising Analyst, Supervisor and Faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. An Assistant Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, she is former Co-Director of the Sexual Abuse Treatment Team, Children’s Hospital. In private practice in Cambridge, MA, she speaks and publishes nationally and internationally. Don Romesburg, Ph.D., a historian, is Associate Professor and Chair at Sonoma State University Women’s and Gender Studies Department. Editor of The Routledge History of Queer America (forthcoming), he has published in many interdisciplinary journals, does research on adolescence and homosexuality, and is a Co-Founder of the GLBT History Museum in San Francisco.
The contents of this issue span the consulting room and the seminar room. The first section, “’Tis Beauty Kills the Beast,’” consists of a clinical article by the late Suzanne Chassay that is discussed by Karen Peoples. Writing in the Bionian tradition as it touches relational psychoanalysis, Chassay, in the words of Co-Editor Stephen Hartman’s Introduction, “charts a unique form of psychic retreat from relatedness … in which the body and its energies form the elemental architecture of addictive encasement. Studying beauty at its most implosive, Chassay and Peoples enrich our understanding of indecipherable anxieties that become knowable and subject to care in an interembodied register” (this issue, p. 3).
The second section, “Psychoanalysis Meets Queer Time,” includes articles drawn from the eponymous forum held at New York University and co-sponsored by Studies in Gender and Sexuality and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) at New York University (). The partnership between this journal and CSGS has a fecund, if recent, history.