Title: Sex Roles: An Up-to-Date Gender Journal with an Outdated Name
Abstract: Like most incoming editors, I want to build on the scholarship and practices these past editors have so expertly nurtured, as well as keep the journal at the cutting edge of our fields.I come to this position with my own track-record as the former editor of Psychology of Women Quarterly (2010Quarterly ( -2015)).Although I certainly acknowledge that where my term as editor of Sex Roles will ultimately take me is necessarily unknown, at this launching point I do have some (a) general directions and (b) practiced and projected practices that I want to share here with prospective contributors to the journal, including authors and reviewers. General DirectionsEvery journal succinctly lays out its aims and scope, and these necessarily evolve across time and editors.Mine, and those of my predecessors, say a lot about our expectations regarding what is, and what is not, within the domain of appropriate content for Sex Roles.Let me start here with my own statement of Sex Roles' aims and scope, and then go on to unpack it and explain its evolution, intentions, and implications for my editorial practices.Sex Roles: A Journal of Research is a global, multidisciplinary, scholarly, social and behavioral science journal with a feminist perspective.It publishes original research reports as well as original theoretical papers and conceptual review articles that explore how gender organizes people's lives and their surrounding worlds, including gender identities, belief systems, representations, interactions, relations, organizations, institutions, and statuses.The range of topics covered is broad and dynamic, including but not limited to the study of gendered attitudes, stereotyping, and sexism; gendered contexts, culture, and power; the intersections of gender with race, class, sexual orientation, age, and other statuses and identities; body image; violence; gender (including masculinities) and feminist identities; human sexuality; communication studies; work and organizations; gendered development across the life span or life course; mental, physical, and reproductive health and health care; sports; interpersonal relationships and attraction; activism and social change; economic, political, and legal inequities; and methodological challenges and innovations in doing gender research.