Periodical Title List
This is a list of journals included in current and previous issues of Feminist Periodicals. Since publication schedules vary, not every periodical will have a table of contents page reproduced in every issue of Feminist Periodicals.
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Affilia is dedicated to the discussion and development of critical feminist values, theories, and knowledge as they relate to social work and social welfare research, education, and practice. The intent of Affilia is to bring insight and knowledge to the task of eliminating discrimination and oppression, especially with respect to gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, age, and disability. |
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African Journal of Reproductive Health focuses on publishing original research, comprehensive review articles, case reports and commentaries on reproductive health and related issues in Africa in both English and French. It strives to provide a forum for both African and foreign authors working in Africa to share findings in all aspects of reproductive health and also to disseminate innovative, relevant and useful information on reproductive health throughout the continent. |
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Agenda, as a feminist media organisation in Africa, aims to achieve the goal of eradicating gender inequality and empowering women. Accordingly, Agenda is committed to giving women a forum, a voice and skills to articulate their needs and interests to transform unequal gender relations. We target in particular members of women’s organizations, academia, individuals and organizations interested in gender equality. |
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ASIAN JOURNAL OF WOMEN’S STUDIES (ISSN 1225-9276)
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Asian Journal of Women's Studies 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. The journal offers research articles with a theoretical focus, voices from Asian feminist activism, country reports providing valuable information on specific subjects, and book reviews containing information on recent publications on women in Asia and elsewhere. |
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Asian Women seeks submissions for recent gender issues such as women and welfare, women's rights, eco-feminism, health, women and bio-technology, women and history, gender relations studies and other relevant themes in gender studies. |
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Aspasia is the international peer-reviewed annual of women’s and gender history of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (CESEE). It aims to transform European women’s and gender history by expanding comparative research on women and gender to all parts of Europe, creating a European history of women and gender that encompasses more than the traditional Western European perspective. |
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ATLANTIS: CRITICAL STUDIES IN GENDER, CULTURE, & SOCIAL JUSTICE (ISSN 0702-7818) |
Atlantis is a scholarly research journal devoted to critical work in a variety of formats that reflects current scholarship and approaches to the discipline of Women's and Gender Studies. It incorporates a diversity of feminist, anti-racist and critical identity, intersectional, transnational, and cultural studies approaches to a wide range of contemporary issues, topics, and knowledges. |
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AUSTRALIAN FEMINIST STUDIES (ISSN 0816-4649)
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Australian Feminist Studies is a forum for national and international feminist analyses, focusing on the Australian feminist debate and promoting feminist scholarship in academic disciplines. |
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BERKELEY JOURNAL OF GENDER, LAW & JUSTICE (ISSN 0882-4312)
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Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice’s mandate is to publish feminist legal scholarship that critically examines the intersection of gender with one or more axes of subordination, including, but not limited to, race, class, sexual orientation, and disability. |
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Bi Women Quarterly is a grassroots publication produced by the Boston Bisexual Women’s Network. We have been in continuous publication since 1983, and are the oldest bisexual+ women’s publication in the world, with an international readership. |
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Founded in 1993, BUST is the inclusive feminist lifestyle trailblazer offering a unique mix of humor, female-focused entertainment, uncensored personal stories, and candid reporting that tells the truth about women’s lives. |
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CALYX: A JOURNAL OF ART AND LITERATURE BY WOMEN (ISSN 0147-1627) |
CALYX exists to nurture women’s creativity by publishing fine literature and art by women. CALYX is committed to 1) introducing a wide audience to high quality literature and art by women, 2) providing a forum for diversity and underrepresented writers and viewpoints, 3) discovering and publishing emerging and developing writers, 3) preserving publications for future audiences |
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CAMERA OBSCURA: FEMINISM, CULTURE, AND MEDIA STUDIES (ISSN 0270-5346) |
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. |
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Founded in 1985, the same year that the equality guarantee of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms came into force, the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law publishes ground-breaking, multi-disciplinary scholarship on the impact of law on women’s social, economic, and legal status. |
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CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME (ISSN 0713-3235) |
Canadian Woman Studies is a feminist quarterly which was founded with the goal of making current writing and research on a wide variety of feminist topics accessible to the largest possible community of women. During our forty plus years of publication we have attempted to create a forum in which all of us--not only university women--can exchange our ideas, personal experiences, expertise and creativity. |
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Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience serves the expanding interdisciplinary field of feminist science and technology studies (STS) by supporting theoretically inventive and methodologically creative scholarship incorporating approaches from critical public health, disability studies, sci-art, technology and digital media studies, history and philosophy of science and medicine, and more. |
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The Columbia Journal of Gender and Law is edited and published entirely by students at the Columbia University School of Law. The journal publishes interdisciplinary works rooted in feminist inquiry with the aim of promoting dialogue, debate, and awareness that will broaden the very concept of feminism as one that critically engages multiple and varied forms of social hierarchy and power differentials and their relation to the law. |
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Contemporary Women’s Writing critically assesses writing by women authors who have published approximately from 1970 to the present, especially in essays that reach beyond a reading of a single text in order to challenge existing thinking or extend debates about an author, genre, topic, or theoretical perspective and relate literary analysis to wider cultural and intellectual contexts. |
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In 2021, Curve magazine became a not-for-profit project of The Curve Foundation. Curve relaunched digitally with an iconic new look that embodies the rich history and exciting legacy of our community’s stories. Going forward, Curve will draw a throughline between what was happening from the time it launched in the 1990s to what’s happening today for the Curve Community. |
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DIFFERENCES: A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST CULTURAL STUDIES (ISSN 1040-7391) |
Differences 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. |
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The European Journal of Politics and Gender (EJPG) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes international, cutting-edge research in the broad field of politics and gender. EJPG is endorsed by the Gender and Politics Standing Group of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). |
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The European Journal of Women's Studies is a major international forum for publishing original research, theoretically sophisticated, and empirically grounded in the field of gender studies, with a focus on the complex theoretical and empirical relationship between women and the particular, and diverse, national and transnational contexts of Europe. |
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Feminism & Psychology provides an international forum for debate at the interface of feminisms and psychologies. The peer-reviewed journal's principal aim is to foster feminist theory and practice in—and beyond—psychology. We are interested in pieces that provide insights into gendered realities along multiple intersecting dimensions of difference, privilege, and inequality. |
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Feminist Africa is a continental gender studies journal produced by the community of feminist scholars. It provides a platform for intellectual and activist research, dialogue and strategy. Feminist Africa attends to the complex and diverse dynamics of creativity and resistance that have emerged in postcolonial Africa, and the manner in which these are shaped by the shifting global geopolitical configurations of power. |
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Feminist Anthropology is a peer-reviewed journal with a vision of feminism that is heterogeneous, rich, and multi-disciplinary. The journal encompasses a range of praxes within anthropology’s spectrum of humanistic and scientific endeavors. We are particularly committed to highlighting the unique strengths of feminist anthropology and seek submissions that champion and innovate many epistemological and methodological approaches that speak to issues of gender equity, inclusion, and radical possibility. |
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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. |
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Feminist Economics is a peer-reviewed journal that provides an open forum for dialogue and debate about feminist economic perspectives. By opening new areas of economic inquiry, welcoming diverse voices, and encouraging critical exchanges, the journal enlarges and enriches economic discourse. The goal of Feminist Economics is not just to develop more illuminating theories, but to improve the conditions of living for all children, women, and men. |
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Feminist Formations publishes three times a year—spring, fall, and winter. Each issue features essays focusing on transnational feminist thought and practice, the cultural and social politics of gender and sexuality, historical and contemporary studies of gendered experience, agency, and activism, and other established and emerging lines of feminist inquiry of social relations. Our essays, book reviews, poetry and cover art provide readers with critical and cutting-edge scholarship and cultural production. |
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Feminist German Studies is a refereed publication presenting a wide range of feminist approaches to all aspects of German literature, culture, and language, including pedagogy. Reflecting the interdisciplinary perspectives that inform feminist German studies, each issue contains critical inquiries employing gender and other analytical categories to examine the work, history, life, literature, and arts of the German-speaking world. |
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Feminist Legal Studies is committed to an internationalist perspective and to the promotion and advancement of feminist scholarship in all areas of law. It aims to publish critical, interdisciplinary, theoretically engaged feminist scholarship relating to law (broadly conceived) and has a particular interest in work that extends feminist debates and analysis by reference to critical and theoretical approaches and perspectives, including postcolonial, transnational and poststructuralist work. |
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Feminist Media Histories publishes original research, oral histories, primary documents, conference reports, and archival news on radio, television, film, video, digital technologies, and other media across a range of historical periods and global contexts. |
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Feminist Media Studies provides a transdisciplinary, transnational forum for researchers pursuing feminist approaches to the field of media and communication studies, with attention to the historical, philosophical, cultural, social, political, and economic dimensions and analysis of sites including print and electronic media, film and the arts, and new media technologies. |
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Sustaining a broad international, global, and interdisciplinary scope, Feminist Modernist Studies (FMS) stresses theoretical, cultural, formalist, geographical, and archival approaches to feminist modernist writers and producers of art/culture over the long twentieth-century. |
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Feminist Pedagogy is a peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing original scholarship that serves as a resource for intersectional feminist teaching strategies. The journal welcomes submissions, including original teaching activities, critical commentaries, as well as book and media reviews, across various disciplines, methodological approaches, and theoretical standpoints. |
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Feminist Review is a peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal contributing to 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. |
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Founded in 1972, Feminist Studies was the first scholarly journal in women’s studies and remains a flagship publication with a record of breaking new ground in the field. Whether drawing from the complex past or the shifting present, the pieces that appear in Feminist Studies raise social and political questions that intimately and significantly affect women and men around the world. |
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Feminist Theology is a peer reviewed journal that aims to give a voice to the women of Britain and Ireland in matters of theology and religion but does not restrict itself to the work of feminist theologians and thinkers in these islands. Feminist Theology, while academic in its orientation, is deliberately designed to be accessible to a wide range of readers, whether theologically trained or not. |
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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. |
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Femspec, a peer-reviewed journal, develops communities speculating, theorizing, creating and questioning gender across boundaries, including issues of sexual orientation and interdisciplinary approaches. We encourage work on teaching as well as literary/cultural criticism and creative material. We are inclusive of ethnic and cultural diversity in an internationalist perspective and are committed to publishing experimental feminist prose and poetic works and experiments across media. |
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Frontiers is one of the oldest and most respected feminist journals in the United States. Frontiers retains its original commitment to a broad mix of scholarly work, personal essays, and the arts and to multicultural and interdisciplinary perspectives offered in accessible language. The cross-disciplinary and culturally diverse nature of the journal’s feminist content makes it an ideal source of women’s history, cultural theory, literature, essays, art, criticism, and pedagogical approaches. |
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Gender & Development, co-published by Oxfam and Routledge/Taylor & Francis, has been a steadfast source of essential readings in the field of development for the past 25 years. It foregrounds the experience of development practitioners, many from the global South, who have valuable experiences to share but who may face barriers to publishing in conventional journals. Since its founding in 1993, the journal has critically explored a range of cross-cutting issues in the areas of gender and development. |
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Gender & History is now established as the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations. Spanning epochs and continents, Gender & History examines changing conceptions of gender, and maps the dialogue between femininities, masculinities and their historical contexts. The journal publishes rigorous and readable articles both on particular episodes in gender history and on broader methodological questions which have ramifications for the discipline as a whole. |
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Gender and Language offers an international forum for language-based research on gender and sexuality from feminist, queer, and trans perspectives. While there are many journals focused on gender and many journals focused on language, Gender and Language is currently the only academic journal to which scholars interested in the intersection of these dimensions can turn, whether as contributors looking for an audience sharing this focus or as readers seeking a reliable source for current discussions in the field. |
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Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research is a peer-reviewed transdisciplinary journal of gender studies and feminist theory. The territorial focus is on Central and Eastern Europe as well as other global macro-regions. The journal publishes articles in Czech or English with gender or feminist perspective in the fields of sociology, philosophy, political science, history, cultural studies, and other branches of the social sciences and humanities. The journal also publishes reviews of Czech and international literature on feminist theory and gender studies, discussions, interviews, and information on events in the academic field of gender studies. |
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Gender & Society, the official journal of Sociologists for Women in Society, is a top-ranked journal in sociology and women's studies and publishes less than 10% of all papers submitted to it. Articles analyze gender and gendered processes in interactions, organizations, societies, and global and transnational spaces. The journal publishes empirical articles, along with reviews of books. |
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GENDER IN MANAGEMENT: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL (ISSN 1754-2413) |
Gender in Management (GM) focuses on empirical research, theoretical developments, practice and current issues, addressing broad-ranging social issues, political and legislative decisions, social and educational policy and economic factors within the context of gender, management and leadership advancing knowledge and practice in the field. |
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Gender Issues is interdisciplinary and cross-national in scope focusing on gender and gender equity. The journal publishes basic and applied research examining gender relationships as well as the impact of economic, legal, political, and social forces on those relationships across gender socialization, personality, and behavior in a gendered context. |
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GENDER, PLACE AND CULTURE: A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST GEOGRAPHY (ISSN 0966-369X) |
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. |
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Issues of critical importance as Gender, Work & Organization moves forward include feminist knowledge and practice, feminist philosophies and praxis, diversity, intersectionality, transnational, postcolonial, and decolonial feminisms, feminist ecology, postfeminist humanism/posthumanist feminism, embodiment, affect and organising, gendered power, resistance and activism, gender and global labour markets, critical analyses of neoliberalism, postfeminism, femininities and heroic versus post-heroic leadership approaches. |
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GIRLHOOD STUDIES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL (ISSN 1938-8209) |
Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for the critical discussion of girlhood from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and for the dissemination of current research and reflections on girls' lives to a broad, cross-disciplinary audience of scholars, researchers, practitioners in the fields of education, social service and health care and policy makers. |
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Providing a much-needed forum for interdisciplinary discussion, GLQ publishes scholarship, criticism, and commentary in areas as diverse as law, science studies, religion, political science, and literary studies. Its aim is to offer queer perspectives on all issues touching on sex and sexuality. |
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Harvard Journal of Law and Gender is an intersectional feminist publication, devoted to the advancement of feminist jurisprudence and the study of law and gender. We seek to clarify legal issues that have gendered aspects and implications, confront new challenges to full social equality, and explore the interconnections between race, class, sexuality, nationality, ability, and gender in the law. |
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HAWWA: JOURNAL OF WOMEN OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD (ISSN 1569-2078) |
Hawwa publishes articles from all disciplinary and comparative perspectives that concern women and gender issues in the Middle East and the Islamic world. These include Muslim and non-Muslim communities within the greater Middle East, and Muslim and Middle-Eastern communities elsewhere in the world. Articles dealing with men, masculinity, children and the family, or other issues of gender shall also be considered. |
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Health Care for Women International is a critically acclaimed, international publication that provides a unique interdisciplinary approach to health care and related topics that concern women around the globe. Published twelve times a year, Health Care for Women International includes the newest research, theories, and issues in the fields of public health, social science, health care practice, and health care policy. |
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HECATE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF WOMEN’S LIBERATION (ISSN 0311-4198) |
Hecate prints material relating to women. They are interested in contributions which employ a feminist, Marxist, or other radical methodology to focus on the position of women in relation to patriarchy and capitalism. |
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Herizons is a quarterly Canadian feminist magazine that covers gender justice, the activists and artists making it happen, and the global feminist movement. Herizons brings readers social and political commentary with an intersectional approach, interviews with leading authors, musicians and agitators and feminist news at a glance. |
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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. |
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IDENTITIES: JOURNAL FOR POLITICS, GENDER AND CULTURE (ISSN 1409-9268) |
Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture is an open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed international journal that seeks to serve as a platform for the theoretical production of Southeastern Europe and enable its visibility and an opening for international debate with authors from both the “intellectual centers” and the “intellectual margins” of the world. It is particularly interested in promoting theoretical investigations which see issues of politics, gender and culture as inextricably interrelated. |
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The Indian Journal of Gender Studies is a peer-reviewed journal. It aims at providing a holistic understanding of society. Its objective is to encourage and publish research, analysis and informed discussion on issues relating to gender. Often, contributions challenge existing social attitudes and academic biases that obstruct a holistic understanding of the role of the family, particularly of its women members, community and a wider polity. |
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International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP) is the leading source of cutting-edge research at the intersection of global politics, feminist, gender, and queer scholarship, and activism. Developed and led by a global team of prominent feminist scholars, this journal brings together some of the most influential figures in the field to build a global community of critical and engaged writers and readers. It also seeks to provide a platform for voices from around the world that have not found genuinely open spaces for expression and engagement. |
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FEMINIST APPROACHES TO BIOETHICS (ISSN 1937-4585) |
IJFAB is the leading forum in bioethics for feminist thought and debate. IJFAB welcomes feminist scholarship from any discipline on ethical issues related to health, health care, and the biomedical sciences, or to the social, economic, and environmental determinants of health. All submissions are subject to anonymous peer review. Since open access to scholarly research offers significant educational and social benefits, IJFAB supports “green” open access. |
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENDER, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (ISSN 2040-0748) |
The International Journal of Gender Science and Technology (GST) is an open access, peer reviewed journal that welcomes contributions from practitioners, researchers and policy makers concerned with gender issues in and of science and technology, including engineering, construction and the built environment. |
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INTERSECTIONS: GENDER & SEXUALITY IN ASIAN AND THE PACIFIC (ISSN 1440-9151) |
Placed at the junction of historical and contemporary concerns, Intersections will continue to emphasise the paramount importance of research into the multiple historical and cultural, gender and sexuality patterns in Asian and the Pacific—patterns that are crucial for the understanding of contemporary globalised societies, where identities and social relations are constantly being negotiated against the background of dominant narratives. |
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Sponsored by the American Institute of Bisexuality (AIB), the journal covers a wide range of topics on bisexuality including: new bisexual research; bisexual issues in therapy; differences from the heterosexual, lesbian and gay communities; growth of bisexual movement; bisexuality and the media; bisexual history; different bisexual lifestyles. |
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JOURNAL OF FEMINIST FAMILY THERAPY: AN INTERNATIONAL FORUM (ISSN 0895-2833) |
The Journal of Feminist Family Therapy provides an international forum to further explore the relationship between feminist theory and family therapy theory and practice. The journal presents thought provoking and insightful theoretical articles and empirical research related to feminism and/or gender, culture, power, oppression and their intersection. An important resource for scholars and practitioners, the journal critiques family therapy concepts from a feminist perspective while paying careful attention to cultural and contextual differences such as race, class, religion, age, and sexual orientation. |
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The Journal of Feminist Scholarship is a twice-yearly, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published online and aimed at promoting feminist scholarship across the disciplines, as well as expanding the reach and definitions of feminist research. |
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The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, the oldest interdisciplinary, inter-religious feminist academic journal in religious studies, is a channel for the publication of feminist scholarship in religion and a forum for discussion and dialogue among people of differing feminist perspectives. Our editors are committed to rigorous thinking and analysis in the service of the transformation of religious studies as a discipline and the feminist transformation of religious and cultural institutions. |
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This peer-reviewed journal emphasizes original research articles, critical reviews of the literature, reports of innovative programs for LGBT mental health care training and delivery, and case reports that advance our understanding of LGBT mental health. |
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The journal acknowledges both the breadth of gender-based violence (GBV) and its links to gendered inequalities. It aims to continue to document the voices and experiences of victims and survivors of GBV, to publish work regarding those who perpetrate GBV and of the varied and complex social structures, inequalities and gender norms through which GBV is produced and sustained. The journal recognises the intersection of gender with other identities and power relations, such as ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, faith, disability and economic status. |
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The Journal of Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary journal which publishes articles relating to gender and sex from a feminist perspective covering a wide range of subject areas including the Social, Natural and Health Sciences, the Arts, Humanities, Literature and Popular Culture. We seek articles from around the world that examine gender and the social construction of relationships among genders. |
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The Journal of International Women’s Studies is an online, 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. |
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The Journal of Lesbian Studies examines the cultural, historical, and interpersonal impact of the lesbian experience on society, keeping all readers – professional, academic, or general – informed and up-to-date on current findings, resources, and community concerns. The journal is interdisciplinary in scope and is essential reading for independent scholars, lay people, professors, and students. |
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This interdisciplinary journal advances the fields of Middle East gender, sexuality, and women's studies through the contributions of academics, artists, and activists from around the globe working in the interpretive social sciences and humanities. JMEWS publishes area-specific research informed by transnational feminist, sexuality, masculinity, and cultural theories and scholarship. It is particularly interested in work that employs historical, ethnographic, literary, textual, and visual analyses and methodologies. |
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Established in 1990, the Journal of the History of Sexuality illuminates the history of sexuality in all its expressions, recognizing various differences of class, culture, gender, race, and sexual orientation. Spanning geographic and temporal boundaries, JHS provides a much-needed forum for historical, critical, and theoretical research in this field. Its cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary character brings together original articles and critical reviews from historians, social scientists, and humanities scholars worldwide. |
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The Journal of Women & Aging aims to provide researchers, educators, and practitioners with a comprehensive guide to the experiences facing women as they age, including research on gender, sexuality, and the life course. We welcome articles from multiple disciplines, including the social and behavioral sciences and public health. |
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JOURNAL OF WOMEN AND MINORITIES IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (ISSN 1072-8325) |
The Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering publishes original, peer-reviewed papers that report on empirical investigations covering a variety of topics related to achieving inclusion of historically underrepresented and minoritized populations in science and engineering education, academe, and professional practice. These populations include those who identify as people of color, white women, first generation college students, veterans, members of the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, and the intersections of these and other identities. |
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The Journal of Women, Politics & Policy explores women and their roles in the political process as well as key policy issues that impact women's lives. Articles cover a range of tops about political processes from voters to leaders in interest groups and political parties, and office holders in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government. |
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The award-winning Journal of Women’s History is a quarterly, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press that showcases the dynamic international field of women’s history. The JWH features cutting-edge scholarship from around the globe in all historical periods. Publication in the JWH is a mark of scholarly distinction. It offers clear evidence of a scholar’s ability to ask and answer compelling questions of general interest. |
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LEGACY: A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS (ISSN 0748-4321) |
Legacy is the only scholarly journal to focus specifically on American women’s writing, broadly defined, from the seventeenth through the mid-twentieth centuries. We are interested in projects that examine the works of individual authors; genre studies; analyses of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexualities in women’s literature; historical and material cultural issues pertinent to women’s lives and literary works; and myriad other topics. |
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LILITH: INDEPENDENT, JEWISH & FRANKLY FEMINIST (ISSN 0146-2334) |
Independent, Jewish & frankly feminist since 1976, Lilith’s mission is to be the feminist change-agent in and for the Jewish community: amplifying Jewish feminist voices, creating an inclusive and positive Judaism, spurring gender consciousness in the Jewish world and empowering women, girls and trans and nonbinary people of every background to envision and enact change in their own lives and the larger community. |
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Lux is short for Rosa Luxemburg, one of the most creative minds to remake the Socialist tradition. It’s playful, turning the traditional women’s consumer magazine upside down. And it’s a nod to the fact that, contra stereotypes about socialism, we believe in abundance for all. |
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MEDIA REPORT TO WOMEN: COVERING ALL THE ISSUES CONCERNING WOMEN AND MEDIA (ISSN 0145-9651) |
Media Report to Women stands alone in providing information on all types of media — television, cable, film, radio, newspapers, magazines, newsletters, the Internet and other emerging media — and the way in which they depict women and issues of interest to women. Founded in 1972, Media Report to Women pioneered discussion of the ways in which advertising, print and TV journalism, and entertainment programming depict the lives of women. We also report on how audiences respond to those images, and what effects these images have on women and girls, men and boys. |
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Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality is an online, peer-reviewed journal of interdisciplinary scholarship on women and gender in medieval studies. We invite studies of literature, history, religion, art and architecture, and medievalism, including ones that employ theoretical models ranging from (but not limited to) queer theory and trans studies, critical race theory, decolonial and postcolonial approaches, disability studies, ecocriticism, materiality, affect theory, and history of emotion. |
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MERIDIANS: FEMINISM, RACE, TRANSNATIONALISM (ISSN 1536-6936) |
Meridians, an interdisciplinary feminist journal, provides a forum for the finest scholarship and creative work by and about women of color in US and international contexts. The journal engages the complexity of debates around feminism, race, and transnationalism in a dialogue across ethnic, national, and disciplinary boundaries. Meridians publishes work that makes scholarship, poetry, fiction, and memoir by and about women of color central to history, economics, politics, geography, class, sexuality, and culture. |
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Through networking and education, Midwifery Today’s mission is to return midwifery care to its rightful position in the family; to make midwifery care the norm throughout the world; and to redefine midwifery as a vital partnership with women. |
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Ms. is a mass circulation magazine covering international and national (U.S.) news, the arts, books, popular culture, feminist theory and scholarship, ecofeminism, women's health, spirituality, and political and economic affairs; Ms. also publishes fiction, poetry, photo essays, and cartoons. |
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NASHIM: A JOURNAL OF JEWISH WOMEN'S STUDIES & GENDER ISSUES (ISSN 0793-8934) |
Nashim provides an international, interdisciplinary, and scholarly forum in Jewish women’s and gender studies, and is the only one of its kind. It creates communication channels within the Jewish women’s and gender studies community and brings forth that community’s work to a wider audience. |
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NELLE publishes, celebrates, and amplifies the voices of writers identifying as cis women, trans women, non-binary, intersex, and other historically marginalized gender communities. The journal is a UAB publication staffed by faculty and students and funded by the English Department and the College of Arts and Sciences. |
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NORA: NORDIC JOURNAL OF FEMINIST AND GENDER RESEARCH (ISSN 0803-8740) |
NORA is a multi-disciplinary international journal of feminist and gender research, with a distinct Nordic edge. Its purpose is to provide a Nordic perspective on an international research field and to make feminist and gender research located in and/or relevant to the area visible internationally. As an English-language journal, NORA is committed to situating and mapping the breadth and depth of Nordic feminist and gender research today, and to promoting transnational and transdisciplinary dialogue. |
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PALIMPSEST: A JOURNAL ON WOMEN, GENDER, AND THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL (ISSN 2165-1604) |
Palimpsest is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship and creative work by and about women of the African Diaspora and their communities in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds. The goal of Palimpsest is to engender further explorations of the Black International as a liberation narrative and Black Internationalism as an insurgent consciousness formed over and against retrogressive practices embodied in slavery, colonialism, imperialism, and globalization, from the early modern period to the present. |
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PERSIMMON TREE: AN ONLINE MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS BY WOMEN OVER SIXTY |
Persimmon Tree, an online magazine, is a showcase for the creativity and talent of women over sixty. Too often older women’s artistic work is ignored or disregarded, and only those few who are already established receive the attention they deserve. Yet many women are at the height of their creative abilities in their later decades and have a great deal to contribute. Persimmon Tree is committed to bringing this wealth of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art to a broader audience, for the benefit of all. |
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PHILOSOPHIA: A JOURNAL OF CONTINENTAL FEMINISM (ISSN 2155-0891) |
philoSOPHIA is an international, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal of feminist philosophy, theory, and creativity. Established in 2008, and “transContinentalized” in 2018, the journal biannually publishes cutting-edge scholarship that extends the rich traditions of transformative feminist interventions and sociopolitical engagements. |
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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. The Editor welcomes studies that address fundamental questions in politics and political science from the perspective of gender difference, as well as those that interrogate and challenge standard analytical categories and conventional methodologies. |
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Porn Studies is the first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to critically explore those cultural products and services designated as pornographic and their cultural, economic, historical, institutional, legal and social contexts. Porn Studies will publish innovative work examining specifically sexual and explicit media forms, their connections to wider media landscapes and their links to the broader spheres of (sex) work across historical periods and national contexts. |
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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. |
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QED (published 3 times/yr.) brings together scholars, activists, public intellectuals, artists, and policy and culture makers to discuss, debate, and mobilize issues and initiatives that matter to the diverse lived experience, struggle, and transformation of GLBTQ peoples and communities wherever they may be. With an emphasis on worldmaking praxis, QED welcomes theory, criticism, history, policy analysis, public argument, and creative exhibition, seeking to foster intellectual and activist work through essays, commentaries, interviews, roundtable discussions, and book and event reviews. |
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Religion and Gender is the first peer-reviewed, international journal for the systematic study of gender and religion in an interdisciplinary perspective. The journal explores the relation, confrontation and intersection of gender and religion, taking into account the multiple and changing manifestations of religion in diverse social and cultural contexts. It analyses and reflects critically on gender in its interpretative and imaginative dimensions and as a fundamental principle of social ordering. |
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RESOURCES FOR GENDER & WOMEN’S STUDIES: A FEMINIST REVIEW (ISSN 0742-7433) |
RGWS reviews the latest print, video, and digital resources for research and teaching in gender and women’s studies. Recent book reviews have explored such topics as rape culture, the meaning of consent in higher education, African American women’s heritage and migration, trans care, the origins of dangerous ideologies about the Black female body, and the cultural and moral morphology of abortion. New, gender-focused special issues of journals are also highlighted, as are other resources and tools for feminist scholarship. |
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RESTORATION OF NATIVE SOVEREIGNTY AND SAFETY FOR NATIVE WOMEN |
The Restoration of Native Sovereignty and Safety for Native Women magazine is dedicated to informing tribal leaders, advocates and communities of emerging issues impacting the safety of American Indian and Alaska Native women. The name of the magazine reflects the grassroots strategy that by strengthening the sovereignty of Indian nations to hold perpetrators accountable, the safety of Native women will be restored. |
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REF is a periodical published every four months that aims to scientifically disseminate original texts in Portuguese, English and Spanish, in the form of articles, essays and reviews, on gender, feminisms and sexualities, which can be either related to a particular discipline or interdisciplinary in its methodology, theorization and bibliography. The published texts contribute to the study of gender issues, coming from various disciplines: history, sociology, anthropology, literature, cultural studies, political science, medicine, psychology, feminist theory, semiotics, demography, communication, psychoanalysis, international relations, among others. |
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ROOM: LITERATURE, ART & FEMINISM SINCE 1975 (ISSN 0316-1609) |
Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, and has published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews for forty years. Published quarterly by the West Coast Feminist Literary Magazine Society, also known as the Growing Room Collective, Room showcases writing and art by women (cisgender and transgender), transgender men, Two-Spirit and nonbinary people. |
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Sex Roles 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. |
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SRHM journal is a peer-reviewed, international journal that explores emerging, neglected and marginalized issues across the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). It aims to publish original, relevant, and contemporary research, particularly from a feminist perspective, that can help inform the development of policies, laws and services to fulfil the rights and meet the sexual and reproductive health needs of people of all ages, gender identities and sexual orientations. |
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Consistently one of the world’s leading journals in the exploration of human sexualities within a truly interdisciplinary context, Sexualities publishes peer-reviewed, scholarly articles that exemplify the very best of current research. It is published six times a year and aims to present cutting-edge debate and review for an international readership of scholars, lecturers, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates. |
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Shameless is an independent Canadian voice for people with marginalized genders. It’s a fresh alternative to typical teen magazines, packed with articles about arts, culture and current events, reflecting the neglected diversity of our readers’ interests and experiences. Grounded in principles of social justice and anti-oppression, Shameless aims to do more than just publish a magazine: we aim to inspire, inform, and advocate for young women and trans youth. |
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SIGNS: JOURNAL OF WOMEN IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY (ISSN 0097-9740) |
Challenging the boundaries of knowledge concerning women’s and men’s lives in diverse regions of the globe, Signs publishes scholarship that raises new questions and develops innovative approaches to our understanding of the past and present. What makes feminist scholarship published in Signs distinctive is not necessarily the subject of investigation or particular methods of inquiry but the effort to cultivate alternative research practices that further feminist, queer, and antiracist goals of social transformation. |
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Simone de Beauvoir Studies is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to advancing scholarship on themes relevant to Simone de Beauvoir’s legacy, such as gender and sexuality, race and culture, feminism, existentialism, literature, and political activism. Founded in 1983, SdBS publishes creative, journalistic, autobiographical, and experimental writing in addition to research, scholarly articles, and book reviews. Submissions need not mention Beauvoir or her oeuvre directly, as long as they demonstrate clear connections to her legacy in content and/or style. Texts are published in English and French. |
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SINISTER WISDOM: A MULTICULTURAL LESBIAN LITERARY & ART JOURNAL (ISSN 0196-1853) |
Sinister Wisdom is a multicultural lesbian literary & art journal that publishes four issues each year. Publishing since 1976, Sinister Wisdom works to create a multicultural, multi-class lesbian space. Sinister Wisdom seeks to open, consider and advance the exploration of lesbian community issues. Sinister Wisdom recognizes the power of language to reflect our diverse experiences and to enhance our ability to develop critical judgment as lesbians evaluating our community and our world. |
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SOCIAL POLITICS: INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN GENDER, STATE, AND SOCIETY (ISSN 1072-4745) |
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, and Society examines political systems and cultural institutions through the lens of gender. It addresses changes in family, state, market, and civil society, employing several disciplines and drawing from a variety of cultures to illuminate these areas of research. |
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Studies in Gender and Sexuality is one of the leading journals in the transdisciplinary field of gender and sexuality studies. Situated at the interface of psychoanalysis and social/cultural theory, it aims to further our understanding of how we live, theorize and transform genders and sexualities. |
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TRANSFORMATIONS: THE JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE SCHOLARSHIP AND PEDAGOGY (ISSN 1052-5017) |
Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary forum for pedagogical scholarship exploring intersections of identities, power, and social justice. The journal features a range of approaches, from theoretical articles to creative and experimental accounts of pedagogical innovations, from teachers and scholars from all areas of education. |
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TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly offers a high-profile venue for innovative research and scholarship that contest the objectification, pathologization, and exoticization of transgender lives. It publishes interdisciplinary work that explores the diversity of gender, sex, sexuality, embodiment, and identity in ways that have not been adequately addressed by feminist and queer scholarship. |
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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. |
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Established in 1988, U.S.―Japan Women’s Journal (USJWJ) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, biannual publication, available in print and online, that promotes scholarly exchange on social, cultural, political, and economic issues pertaining to gender and Japan. |
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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: AN INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL (ISSN 1077-8012) |
Violence Against Women is an international, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the publication of research and information on all aspects of the problem of violence against women. The journal assumes a broad definition of violence; topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, domestic violence, sexual assault, incest, sexual harassment, female infanticide, female genital cutting (FGC), and female sexual slavery. |
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Visual Culture & Gender was born digital more than a decade ago in 2005 as the first multimedia online journal in the field of art education, and the first online journal devoted to the intersections of visual culture and gender. VCG is an annual international, peer-reviewed, freely accessed, multimedia online journal whose purpose is to encourage and promote understanding of how visual culture constructs gender in context with representations of race, age, sexuality, (dis)ability, and social class. |
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The Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society, originally the Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal founded in 1985, grew out of two traditions: the University of Wisconsin Law School’s “law in action” approach and the interdisciplinary design of gender studies. Through “law in action” we look beyond the statutes and cases to study the practical effects of the law on both individuals and communities. The interdisciplinary approach offers different perspectives through which to expand and challenge our understanding of the law. |
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The Woman’s Art Journal has been publishing high-quality feminist art-historical scholarship for five decades. Its peer-reviewed articles address issues relating to women as artists, patrons, models, subjects, viewers, consumers, art historians, and art-world professionals within a robust feminist theoretical framework. |
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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. |
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Women & Criminal Justice invites articles that critically examine the issues of crime, victimization and the criminal justice system as they pertain to differences among females and males, or as they pertain to the social and cultural construction of gender. Research papers that utilize qualitative and quantitative data analysis are welcomed, as are empirical papers that relate to global concerns for women as victims, offenders or practitioners in the field of criminal justice. |
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Women & Health contains information that is eminently useful to researchers, policy planners, and all providers of health care for women. The journal covers findings from studies concerning health and illness and physical and psychological well-being of women, as well as the environmental, lifestyle, and sociocultural factors that are associated with health and disease, which have implications for prevention, early detection and treatment, limitation of disability, and rehabilitation. |
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Women & Language is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. |
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WOMEN & MUSIC: A JOURNAL OF GENDER & CULTURE (ISSN 1090-7505) |
Women and Music is an annual journal of scholarship about women, music, and culture. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines and approaches, this refereed journal seeks to further the understanding of the relationships among gender, music, and culture, with special attention being given to the concerns of women. |
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Women & Therapy is the only professional journal that focuses entirely on the complex interrelationship between women and the therapeutic experience. Devoted to theoretical, clinical, intersectional, qualitative and quantitative analyses of issues concerning women and therapy, the journal is intended for feminist practitioners, as well as for individuals interested in the practice of feminist therapy. |
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Women, Gender, and Families of Color is a multidisciplinary journal that centers on the study of Black, Latina, Indigenous, and Asian American women, gender, and families. The journal encourages theoretical and empirical research from history, the social and behavioral sciences, and humanities including comparative and transnational research and analyses of domestic social, political, economic, and cultural policies and practices within the United States. |
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Women in French Studies exists to promote the study of women writers and women in civilization in the French-speaking world. An additional purpose of the organization is to share information and concerns about the status of women in Francophone countries and in higher education in North America. |
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Women in Higher Education aims to enlighten, encourage, empower, and enrich women on campus by facilitating the integration of women administrators and faculty, staff and students to win acceptance of women's styles and values on campus and in society. |
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Women In Judaism is an academic, refereed journal published exclusively on the Internet, and devoted to scholarly debate on gender-related issues in Judaism. The ultimate aim of the journal is to promote the reconceptualization of the study of Judaism, by acknowledging and incorporating the roles played by women, and by encouraging the development of alternative research paradigms. |
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WOMEN LANGUAGE LITERATURE IN ITALY/DONNE LINGUA LETTERATURA IN ITALIA (ISSN 2612-1328)
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Women Language Literature in Italy/Donne Lingua Letteratura in Italia is a periodical in the field of Italian Studies, dedicated entirely to women, language, and literature in Italy, across centuries - from the Middle Ages to the present. This interdisciplinary journal welcomes contributions from researchers working across historical periods and across subjects related to women's studies. |
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Women’s Health delivers the highest quality peer-reviewed, open access, original research articles, reviews, and scholarly comment on pioneering efforts and innovative research from all disciplines related to women’s health globally. |
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Women’s History Review is an international journal whose aim is to provide a forum for the publication of new scholarly articles in the field of women’s history. The time span covered by the journal includes the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries as well as earlier times. The journal seeks to publish contributions from a range of disciplines (for example, women’s studies, history, sociology, cultural studies, media studies, film studies, literature, anthropology, politics, social policy and philosophy) that further feminist knowledge and debate about women and/or gender relations in history. |
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Women’s Reproductive Health is dedicated to the improvement of reproductive health and well-being across the lifespan for all women. It publishes original research, theoretical and review articles, book and media reviews, and occasional short pieces of creative writing that illuminate issues relevant to researchers, health care providers, educators, and public policy planners. |
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Since 1983, the Women’s Review of Books has been the premier feminist book review and remains proudly a print publication. WRB reviews scholarship as well as fiction, graphic novels, poetry, and memoir usually (but not always) by women. We strive to review a diverse array of books in many fields, genres, and styles for each issue. |
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Women’s Rights Law Reporter, founded in 1970 by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and feminist activists, legal workers, and law students, is a quarterly journal of legal scholarship and feminist criticism published by students at the Rutgers School of Law in Newark. |
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WOMEN'S STUDIES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL (ISSN 0049-7878) |
Women’s Studies provides a forum for the presentation of scholarship and criticism about women in the fields of literature, history, art, sociology, law, political science, economics, anthropology and the sciences. It also publishes poetry, film and book reviews. |
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Women's Studies in Communication provides a feminist forum for diverse research, reviews, and commentary addressing the relationships between communication and gender. WSIC invites contributions that advance our understanding of the intersections of gender and race, ethnicity, nationality, ability, sexuality, and class, as well as the articulations between gendered performances, power, and representation in public culture. |
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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. |
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Since 1972 WSQ has been an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of emerging perspectives on women, gender, and sexuality. WSQ is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published in June and December. Each thematic issue is guest edited and combines contemporary developments in feminist theory and scholarship with essays, poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and the visual arts. |
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Women’s Writing is a fully refereed international journal focusing on women’s writing in English from the Middle Ages to the end of the long nineteenth century. The journal reflects the diversity of scholarship in this important area of study and the editors welcome all critical perspectives; contributions may be close readings of complex texts or historical or theoretical investigations of gender, culture, race and class. The aim of the journal is to bring readers the latest research and open up a forum for dialogue, discussion and debate. |
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The Yale Journal of Law & Feminism (YJLF) formed in 1987 to provide a forum for women's experiences as they have been structured, affected, controlled, discussed, and ignored by the law. |