Symonds Prize
Studies in Gender and Sexuality: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Submissions Deadline: October 1, 2014
Studies in Gender and Sexuality, thanks to the Alexandra and Martin Symonds Foundation, offers its annual competition for the best previously unpublished essay on gender and/or sexuality in the context of theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis.
Submissions will be judged by members of the Editorial Board. The winner will receive $500, and the essay will be published in SGS. Previous awards are:
2009 Tabitha Freeman, Ph.D. “Psychoanalytic Concepts of Fatherhood: Patriarchal Paradoxes and the Presence of an Absent Authority”
2010 Francisco Gonzalez, M.D. “Moving Fragments: On ‘Capturing the Friedmans,’ ‘Grizzly Man,’ and ‘Tarnation’”
2011 Andrea Celenza, Ph.D. “The Guilty Pleasure of Erotic Countertransference”
2012 Kathleen Roberts Skerrett, Ph.D. “Beyond ‘Consent’: David Mamet’s Oleanna and A Hostile Environment for Souls”
2013 Alyson K. Spurgas, M.A., M. Phil. “Interest, Arousal, and Shifting Diagnoses of Female Sexual Dysfunction, or: How Women Learn about Desire”
Now in its 15th year, SGS is at the leading edge of contemporary theorizing on sex and gender. An interdisciplinary forum, it has explored many clinical, developmental, and cultural matters – postmodern gender theory; transsexual and transgender identity and experience; a Kleinian take on women, drugs, and prisons; women and aging; boyhood homophobia; femininity and desire; kinship, gender, and psychotherapy in Turkey; male infertility; cultural images of the mammy; bisexuality; gender jokes; the 21st century body; the art of Bernhardt, Hesse, Serra, and others.
Submissions, with the subject line, “Symonds Competition,” to:
Deadline: October 1, 2014