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ada – A Journal of Gender, New Media & Tecnhology
Affilia – Journal of Women & Social Work
Giving voice to the myriad ways in which feminist practice and praxis manifest in social work has always been Affilia’s mission. In 1986, the founding editors created Affilia as a dedicated space for feminist women’s voices, underrepresented in mainstream social work journals, and the topical and methodological challenges that these marginalized voices raised for the field and the discipline. Articulating innovative feminist voices and perspectives has steadfastly been the substance of the scholarship and art published in the journal since its inception.
Affilia is a living record of feminist social work. As such, realization of its mission to provide an alternative space necessarily shifts as the ideas and ideals underpinning feminist practice and praxis, and their manifestation in social work, change over time. Consideration of whose voices and perspectives—what identities, from which social, geographical and theoretical locations—are and should be included in the forged space of Affilia is, therefore, the subject of ongoing review, reexamination, and renewal. Affilia’s editorial board embraces its responsibility to continually trouble its own views and assumptions.
Contemporary feminisms are grounded in critical, intersectional analysis of lived experience of individuals and groups located in the context of complex structures, systems, and discourses of power and privilege. Affilia seeks exceptional scholarship—ground-breaking, thought-provoking works that challenge taken-for-granted knowledges, raise new questions, generate innovative theories and methodologies, reflect feminist social work’s global diversity, and illuminate alternative pathways for social work theory, research, practice, and teaching.
ANTYAJAA – Indian Journal of Women and Social Change
ANTYAJAA: Indian Journal of Women and Social Change aims to explore inequality and social change from the point of view of the most marginalized female who experiences poverty, race, ethnicity, religion, caste - all within the overarching experience of gender. After all, gender is the first inequality we experience and it normalizes all other inequalities for us. We first see at home that it is all right for one class of human beings to obey and another to order. Gender digs a trench into our brain into which all other inequalities fall.
The journal will go beyond the subaltern (a useful tool in interpreting colonialism) to the Antyajaa, to interpret the roots of global patriarchal imperialism. It aims to publish well-researched articles, interviews, oral histories and essays that draw forth the plight of the last female, who is weaker than even the weakest of men in varying socio-cultural contexts. It will capture women’s movements across the globe, the experience of intertwining inequalities and give voice to women leaders, survivors and victims transforming power.
Asian Journal of Women's Studies (AJWS)
Asian Journal of Women's Studies (AJWS), an academic journal, is published by the Asian Center for Women's Studies (ACWS) and Ewha Womans University Press. It is an interdisciplinary journal, publishing articles pertaining to women's issues from a feminist perspective. The journal offers articles with a theoretical focus, country reports providing valuable information on specific subjects and countries, research notes, and book reviews containing information on recent publications on women in Asia and elsewhere.
AJWS aims to share and disseminate information and scholarly ideas about women's issues in Asia and all over the world, with the view to develop women's studies in Asia and expand the horizon of western-centered women's studies.
Australian Feminist Studies
A forum for national and international feminist analyses, focusing on the Australian feminist debate and promoting feminist scholarship in academic disciplines.
Body & Society
Body & Society has from its inception in March 1995 as a companion journal to Theory, Culture & Society, pioneered and shaped the field of body-studies. It has been committed to theoretical openness characterized by the publication of a wide range of critical approaches to the body, alongside the encouragement and development of innovative work that contains a trans-disciplinary focus.
The disciplines reflected in the journal have included anthropology, art history, communications, cultural history, cultural studies, environmental studies, feminism, film studies, health studies, leisure studies, medical history, philosophy, psychology, religious studies, science studies, sociology and sport studies. The journal has also sought to examine a wide range of issues which have arisen from the writings of theorists such as: Baudrillard, Bergson, Bourdieu, Butler, Cixous, Deleuze, Douglas, Elias, Ettinger, Foucault, Haraway, Kristeva, Latour, Mauss, Merleau-Ponty, and Simondon.
Cadernos Pagu
Cadernos Pagu, publicación cuatrimestral interdisciplinar, tiene como objetivo contribuir para la ampliación y el fortalecimiento del campo interdisciplinar de estudios de género, dando visibilidad a lo que se produce en Brasil y promoviendo el intercambio de conocimiento internacional sobre esa problemática. Publica artículos inéditos con contribuciones científicas originales, que colaboren para la innovación teórica, metodológica y/o que agreguen conocimiento empírico innovador, y debates en torno de textos teóricos relevantes en el campo de los estudios de género, viabilizando, de tal modo, la difusión de conocimientos en el área y la lectura crítica de la producción internacional.
Camera Obscura
Camera Obscura provides a forum for scholarship and debate on feminism, culture, and media studies. The journal encourages contributions in areas such as the conjunctions of gender, race, class, and sexuality with audiovisual culture; new histories and theories of film, television, video, and digital media; and politically engaged approaches to a range of media practices.
Columbia Journal of Gender & Law
Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
«differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies» first appeared in 1989 at the moment of a critical encounter—a head-on collision, one might say—of theories of difference (primarily Continental) and the politics of diversity (primarily American). In the ensuing years, the journal has established a critical forum where the problematic of differences is explored in texts ranging from the literary and the visual to the political and social. «differences» highlights theoretical debates across the disciplines that address the ways concepts and categories of difference—notably but not exclusively gender—operate within culture.
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
European Journal of Women's Studies
The European Journal of Women's Studies is a quarterly published, interdisciplinary forum devoted to European feminist scholarship. The journal presents the latest stand of gender theory and feminist scholarship internationally, contributing to debates from a European perspective. The journal provides a platform for different theoretical and methodological approaches and a diversity of feminist perspectives.
WebsiteFeminism & Psychology
Feminism and Psychology offers an intellectually and politically charged archive of historic and contemporary lines of analysis within feminism and psychology, across continents.
“On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Committee on Women in Psychology, we acknowledge the leadership of the editorial team of Feminism & Psychology, an international, feminist, peer-reviewed journal, for encouraging, supporting, and showcasing cutting-edge and transformative feminist theory and research. Feminism & Psychology has provided a forum for critical, radical, and provocative feminist scholarship that serves as an impetus for social change and for theoretical and methodological innovations in feminist psychology. Feminism & Psychology has contributed to the transformation of psychology, has helped to clarify the dynamics of oppression and discrimination, and has stimulated new directions in the theories, methods, and practices of feminist psychology. We salute the Editorial Boards of Feminism & Psychology, who, since the journal’s inception, have truly been leaders for women in psychology.” Joan C. Chrisler, PhD, Chair, Committee on Women in Psychology
Feminism & Psychology fosters the development of feminist theory and practice in psychology and represents the concerns of women in a wide range of contexts across the academic/applied `divide'.
Feminist Criminology
Feminist Criminology is an innovative journal that is dedicated to research related to women, girls, and crime within the context of a feminist critique of criminology. Published five times a year by SAGE Publications as the official journal of the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology, this international publication focuses on research and theory that highlights the gendered nature of crime.
The feminist critique of criminology incorporates a perspective that the paths to crime differ for males and females. Therefore, research that uses sex as a control variable often fails to illuminate the factors that predict female criminality. Feminist Criminology provides a venue for articles that place women in the center of the research question, answering different questions than the mainstream approach of controlling for sex.
Feminist Economics
Feminist Legal Studies
Feminist Legal Studies is committed to an international perspective and to the promotion of feminist work in all areas of law, legal theory and legal practice. The journal publishes material in a range of formats, including articles, essay reviews, interviews, book reviews and notes on recent legal developments. The editorial board encourages the submission of papers from people working outside the academy, as well as from researchers in any discipline.
The journal publishes critical, interdisciplinary, theoretically engaged feminist scholarship relating to law (broadly conceived). It has a particular interest in work that extends feminist debates and analysis by reference to critical and theoretical approaches and perspectives.
Feminist Media Studies
Feminist Media Studies provides a transdisciplinary forum for researchers pursuing feminist approaches to the field of media and communication studies.
Feminist Review
Feminist Review is a peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal setting new agendas for feminism. The journal invites critical reflection on the relationship between materiality and representation, theory and practice, subjectivity and communities, contemporary and historical formations.
Feminist Review resists the increasing instrumentalisation of scholarship within British and international higher education and thus supports the generation of creative and innovative approaches to knowledge production. As well as academic articles, the journal publishes experimental pieces, visual and textual media and political interventions, including interviews, short stories, poems and photographic essays.
Feminist Studies in Religion
Feminist Theology
This journal is the first of its kind to be published in Britain. While it does not restrict itself to the work of feminist theologians and thinkers in these islands, Feminist Theology aims to give a voice to the women of Britain and Ireland in matters of theology and religion.
Feminist Theology, whilst academic in its orientation, is deliberately designed to be accessible to a wide range of readers, whether theologically trained or not. Its discussion of contemporary issues is not narrowly academic, but sets those issues in a practical perspective.
Feminist Theory
Feminist Theory is an international peer reviewed journal that provides a forum for critical analysis and constructive debate within feminism. Feminist Theory is genuinely interdisciplinary and reflects the diversity of feminism, incorporating perspectives from across the broad spectrum of the humanities and social sciences and the full range of feminist political and theoretical stances. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Frontiers Journal of Womens Studies
«Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies» is one of the premier publications in the field of feminist/gender studies and one of the oldest and most respected academic feminist journals in the United States. Frontiers began publication in 1975 at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The original Editorial Collective (the advisory board of the host institution) chose the title “Frontiers” to signal that the journal would push the boundaries of feminist scholarship within a national context.
«Frontiers» began in the West (moving to the University of New Mexico, Washington State University, and to Arizona State University), and the journal embraced the study of women in the U.S. West. In particular, the journal focused on the multicultural West, the borderlands within and between nations, and transnational aspects of the regional West, from the ancestral lands of Native Americans to ties with the Americas and the countries and peoples of the Pacific Rim. In doing so, the journal has increasingly explored issues of regional import within a global context. As Susan Armitage, the journal's editor for much the 1990s at Washington State University wrote, “Frontiers wants to cross borders, wherever they may be.”
Gender and Development
Since 1993, Gender & Development has aimed to promote, inspire, and support development policy and practice, which furthers the goal of equality between women and men. This journal has a readership in over 90 countries and uses clear accessible language. Each issue of Gender & Development focuses on a topic of key interest to all involved in promoting gender equality through development. An up-to-the minute overview of the topic is followed by a range of articles from researchers, policy makers, and practitioners. Insights from development initiatives across the world are shared and analysed, and lessons identified. Innovative theoretical concepts are explored by key academic writers, and the uses of these concepts for policy and practice are explored.
Gender and Education
Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography
The aim of Gender, Place and Culture is to provide a forum for debate in human geography and related disciplines on theoretically-informed research concerned with gender issues. It also seeks to highlight the significance of such research for feminism and women’s studies. The editors seek articles based on primary research that address: the particularities and intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, age, (dis)ability, sexuality, class, culture and place; feminist, anti-racist, critical and radical geographies of space, place, nature and the environment; feminist geographies of difference, resistance, marginality and/or spatial negotiation; and, critical methodology.
Gender, Technology and Development
Publishes research on the meaning of gender, as it relates to science and technology and to social, political, economic, and cultural change.
Gender & History
Gender & Society
«Gender & Society (GENDSOC)» is a peer-reviewed journal, focused on the study of gender. It is the official journal of Sociologists for Women in Society, and was founded in 1987 as an outlet for feminist social science. Currently, it is a top-ranked journal in both sociology and women's studies. Gender & Society publishes less than 10% of all papers submitted to it. Articles appearing in Gender & Society analyze gender and gendered processes in interactions, organizations, societies, and global and transnational spaces. The journal primarily publishes empirical articles, which are both theoretically engaged and methodologically rigorous, including qualitative, quantitative, and comparative-historical methodologies. Gender & Society also publishes reviews of books from a diverse array of social science disciplines.
Gender & the Genome
Gender and the Genome is a peer-reviewed open access journal that explores how the new science of the 21st century is profoundly influenced by biological sex. Through evidence-based original research, reviews, perspectives, and commentaries, the Journal illuminates the impact of biological sex on technology and its effects on human life. The Journal’s international editorial board is comprised of the most forward-thinking leaders in gender-specific medicine to engage the community of molecular biologists, engineers, ethicists, anthropologists, and legal experts in a dialogue about the nature and implications of 21st century technology.
Human Rights International Research Journal
The Human Rights Research journal was established in 2003 and is published once a year. It is a publication of the Victoria Human Rights Programme, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The aim of the journal is to publish interdisciplinary research on international human rights. The articles arise out of the annual Human Rights Symposium held at Victoria University each August. The journal publishes academic articles of approximately 6000 words. Articles are subjected to an external peer review process. The views contained in the articles are not necessarily those of the editors or the Victoria Human Rights Programme.
Humanities & Social Sciences
Humanities & Social Sciences is an open access online-only journal dedicated to publishing high quality original research across all areas of the humanities, the social sciences and business. Multi-disciplinary in scope, Humanities & Social Sciences also champions interdisciplinary research, fostering interaction, creativity and reflection within and between the rich disciplines the journal encompasses.
Hypatia
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy is a forum for cutting-edge work in feminist philosophy. Since its inception in the mid-1980s, Hypatia has been a catalyst for broadening and refining feminist philosophy as well as an invaluable resource for those who teach in this area. Feminist philosophy arises out of diverse traditions and methods within philosophy and is also richly interdisciplinary in orientation. Hypatia’s commitment to the development of feminist philosophy entails that, in all its policies and practices, Hypatia actively reflects and engages the diversity within feminism itself, the diverse experiences and situations of women, and the diverse forms that gender takes across the globe. Promoting diversity within feminist philosophy and within philosophy in general is thus one of Hypatia’s core objectives. We are committed to publishing articles that are broadly accessible. Hypatia serves as a resource for the wider women's studies community, for philosophers generally, and for all those interested in philosophical issues raised by feminism.
Indian Journal of Gender Studies
The Indian Journal of Gender Studies is geared towards providing a more holistic understanding of society. Women and men are not compared mechanically. Rather, gender categories are analysed with a view to changing social attitudes and academic biases which obstruct a holistic understanding of contributions to the family, community and a wider polity. The journal focuses, among other issues, on violence as a phenomenon, the social organisation of the family, the invisibility of women's work, institutional and policy analyses, women and politics, and motherhood and child care.
International Feminist Journal of Politics
International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship
IJGE provides a dedicated platform for high calibre, international research of interest to academics, entrepreneurs and policy makers in the field of gender and entrepreneurship
International Journal of Gender & Women's Studies
International Journal of Gender and Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary international journal which publishes articles relating to gender and sex from a feminist perspective covering a wide range of subject areas including the social and natural sciences, the arts, the humanities and popular culture. The journal seeks articles from around the world that examine gender and the social construction of relationships among genders. In drafting papers authors should consider the readability of their paper for readers outside of their discipline. Articles appearing in Journal of Gender and Women’s Studies analyze gender and gendered processes in interactions, organizations, societies, and global and transnational spaces. The journal primarily publishes empirical articles, which are both theoretically engaged and methodologically rigorous, including qualitative, quantitative, and comparative methodologies. The journal also publishes reviews of books from a diverse array of social science disciplines.
JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies
Journal of Gender Studies
Research on social constructs of gender, sex and gender relations from a feminist perspective in the sciences, social sciences, humanities and popular culture.
Journal of International Women’s Studies
The Journal of International Women’s Studies is an on-line, open-access, peer reviewed feminist journal that provides a forum for scholars, activists, and students to explore the relationships among theories of gender and sexuality and various forms of organizing and critical practice.
Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies
Journal of Sex Research
Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education
Journal of Women, Politics & Policy
La Camera Blu
The journal aims at introducing stimulating and innovative subjects in the field of gender studies in a multidisciplinary perspective. Each issue focuses on a specific topic, analyzed from philosophical, pedagogic, literary, psychological, socio-anthropological and historical perspectives.
NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
Publishes international research on feminism and gender studies in the Nordic countries, including emerging trends in Nordic feminist and women’s studies.
Politics & Gender
Politics & Gender is an agenda-setting journal that publishes the highest quality scholarship on gender and politics and on women and politics. It aims to represent the full range of questions, issues, and approaches on gender and women across the major subfields of political science, including comparative politics, international relations, political theory, and U.S. politics.
Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity
Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity ®, the official publication of APA Division 44 (Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity), is a scholarly journal dedicated to the dissemination of information in the field of sexual orientation and gender diversity. It is a primary outlet for research particularly as it impacts practice, education, public policy, and social action.
The journal is intended to be a forum for scholarly dialogue that explores the multifaceted aspects of sexual orientation and gender diversity. Its focus is on empirical research (both quantitative and qualitative), theoretical and conceptual articles, in-depth reviews of the research and literature, clinical case studies, book reviews, and letters to the editor.
Psychology of Women Quarterly
Psychology of Women Quarterly (PWQ) is a feminist, scientific, peer-reviewed journal that publishes empirical research, critical reviews and theoretical articles that advance a field of inquiry, teaching briefs, and invited book reviews related to the psychology of women and gender. Topics include (but are not limited to) feminist approaches, methodologies, and critiques; violence against women; body image and objectification; sexism, stereotyping, and discrimination; intersectionality of gender with other social locations (such as age, ability status, class, ethnicity, race, and sexual orientation); international concerns; lifespan development and change; physical and mental well being; therapeutic interventions; sexuality; social activism; and career development.
This journal will be of interest to clinicians, faculty, and researchers in all psychology disciplines, as well as those interested in the sociology of gender, women’s studies, interpersonal violence, ethnic and multicultural studies, social advocates, policy makers, and teacher education.
Signs: Journal of Women in Gender & Society
Studies in Women’s Literature
Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, the first journal devoted solely to women’s literature, has for thirty-nine years published groundbreaking articles, notes, research, and reviews of literary, historicist, and theoretical work by established and emerging scholars in the field of women’s literature and feminist theory. From its founding in 1982, Tulsa Studies has been devoted to the study of both literary and nonliterary texts—any and all works in every language and every historical period produced by women’s pens.
Violence Against Women
Violence Against Women (VAW) peer-reviewed and published monthly, is an international, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the publication of research and information on all aspects of the problem of violence against women. VAW assumes a broad definition of violence; topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, domestic violence, sexual assault, incest, sexual harassment, female infantcide, female circumcision, and female sexual slavery.
Women: a cultural review
Women: a cultural review explores the role and representation of gender and sexuality in arts and culture, with a particular focus on the contemporary world.
The journal analyses the theory and politics of sexual difference in literature, the media, history, education, law, philosophy, psychoanalysis and the performing and visual arts. The journal has two Special Issues a year, and one Open Forum. In addition to articles, each issue has a substantial review section and a listings section for new and recent titles in the field of gender and culture. The journal also regularly features interviews with figures who have made particularly significant interventions in current debates about gender and feminism. Articles are invited for Special Issues and the Open Forum from both male and female contributors.
Women & Criminal Justice
Publishes critical research on crime, victimization and the criminal justice system as they pertain to the social and cultural construction of gender.
Women’s History Review
Publishes articles and viewpoints on women’s history, furthering feminist knowledge and debate about women and/or gender relations in various disciplines.
Women’s Studies in Communication
Women's Studies International Forum
Women's Studies International Forum (formerly Women's Studies International Quarterly, established in 1978) is a bimonthly journal to aid the distribution and exchange of feminist research in the multidisciplinary, international area of women's studies and in feminist research in other disciplines. The policy of the journal is to establish a feminist forum for discussion and debate. The journal seeks to critique and reconceptualize existing knowledge, to examine and re-evaluate the manner in which knowledge is produced and distributed, and to assess the implications this has for women's lives.
We seek contributions from people, individually or collectively, from different countries and different backgrounds, who are engaged in feminist research inside or outside formal educational institutions. We welcome a variety of approaches and resources through the whole range of disciplines.
Women's Studies Quarterly
Since 1972, WSQ has been an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of emerging perspectives on women, gender, and sexuality. Its thematic issues focus on such topics as Activisms, The Global and the Intimate, The Sexual Body, Trans-, Technologies, and Mother, combining psychoanalytic, legal, queer, cultural, technological, and historical work to present the most exciting new scholarship on ideas that engage popular and academic readers alike. In 2007, WSQ was awarded the Council of Editors of Learned Journals’ Phoenix Award.
WSQ is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published twice a year in June and December. Along with scholarship from multiple disciplines, it showcases fiction and creative nonfiction, poetry, book reviews, and the visual arts.