The long-established and respected journal _Sex Roles_ has a problem. It's its name. It seems that "sex" implies biology and "gender" implies environment. They like "gender" (and environmental explanations) better. So they have a long-standing policy of advising their authors to use "gender" in place of "sex". They don't want to change this.
What they do want to change is the journal's name, out of fear that people might (heaven forfend!) think they endorse the idea that biology matters in sex. Alas, their publisher tells them that changing the name of a 35-year-old journal has consequences, all bad. So this new editorial explains that although they'd really, really like to do it, they're not gonna. I feel their pain. Frieze, I, and Chrisler, J. (2011). Editorial policy on the use of the terms "sex" and "gender". _Sex Roles_, published on-line May 21. http://www.springerlink.com/content/370k176450144264/fulltext.html Stephen -------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca --------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=11018 or send a blank email to leave-11018-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
