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ada – A Journal of Gender, New Media & Technology
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 goes beyond the subaltern to the Antyajaa, in order 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 captures women’s movements across the globe, the experience of intertwining inequalities and gives voice to women leaders, survivors and victims transforming power.
Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History
Aspasia is a peer-reviewed annual journal on women’s history and gender studies in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It publishes research on historical, social, and cultural topics related to women and gender processes.
Although it is a yearbook rather than a standard journal issue series, it is highly valuable for researchers interested in gender history in specific European contexts, bringing in regional perspectives that are often missing from larger Anglophone journals.
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 Australian feminist debates while also promoting feminist scholarship across academic disciplines.
Body & Society
Body & Society has, since 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 with a transdisciplinary focus.
The disciplines reflected in the journal include 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 also examines issues arising from the writings of major 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 is a four-monthly interdisciplinary publication whose aim is to contribute to the expansion and strengthening of the interdisciplinary field of gender studies, giving visibility to what is produced in Brazil and promoting the international exchange of knowledge on this field. It publishes original articles with innovative theoretical, methodological and/or empirical contributions, as well as debates around relevant theoretical texts in gender studies.
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
Critical Gender Studies Journal / Revista Crítica de Estudios de Género
Critical Gender Studies Journal is an interdisciplinary and transnational periodical that publishes critical research on how gender and sexuality shape, and are shaped by, social, cultural, historical, and political contexts. It explicitly focuses on social justice, innovative methodological approaches, marginalized voices, and research that connects theory and practice in the field of gender and sexuality studies.
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 between theories of difference and the politics of diversity. In the ensuing years, the journal 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 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 Gender Studies
An open access journal dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary research on gender, gender identity, feminisms, women’s rights, and sexuality, with an emphasis on diversity, inclusion, and social change in Europe and beyond.
Because it is open access and addresses European themes within a global context, this journal is especially useful for readers seeking free access to recent academic research or for authors interested in publishing work with broad social and cultural impact.
Feminism & Psychology
Feminism & Psychology offers an intellectually and politically charged archive of historic and contemporary lines of analysis within feminism and psychology across continents.
It 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 and applied divide. The journal provides 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.
Feminist Criminology
Feminist Criminology is an innovative journal 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 the 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 at the center of the research question.
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 submissions from people working outside academia, as well as from researchers in any discipline.
The journal publishes critical, interdisciplinary, theoretically engaged feminist scholarship relating broadly to law. It has a particular interest in work that extends feminist debates and analysis through 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, and contemporary and historical formations.
Feminist Review resists the increasing instrumentalisation of scholarship within British and international higher education and supports 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 voice to women in Britain and Ireland in matters of theology and religion.
Although academic in orientation, Feminist Theology 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 places 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 humanities and social sciences and the full range of feminist political and theoretical positions.
GENDER. Journal for Gender, Culture and Society
GENDER. Journal for Gender, Culture and Society is an international peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to critical research on gender, culture, and society. Published by the interdisciplinary Gender Studies Platform Mainz, the journal brings together articles that explore how gender intersects with other categories of analysis, such as race, class, sexuality, the body, work, politics, and media, in historical and contemporary contexts. The publication encourages innovative theoretical approaches and empirical analyses that reflect current debates in feminist, queer, and postcolonial studies.
Gender & Development
Gender & Development is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to exploring the relationships between gender and development, with a focus on social justice, public policy, human rights, and sustainable development practices in global contexts. Published through partnerships with development organizations and an academic editorial board, the journal features research articles, critical essays, policy analyses, and case studies on issues such as gender equality, economic empowerment, global feminisms, reproductive health, informal work, migration, climate change, and intersectionality in development.
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, disability, 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 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
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
GLQ is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Duke University Press that has been dedicated to queer studies, sexuality, and gender since the 1990s. It covers fields such as religion, science, politics, law, and literary studies from a queer perspective.
This journal is essential for researchers interested in sexuality beyond binary frameworks, including critical perspectives on LGBTQ+ identities, queer theory, and intersectionality. Its multidisciplinary scope makes it valuable for both cultural studies and legal or political scholarship.
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications is an open access, online-only journal dedicated to publishing high-quality original research across all areas of the humanities, social sciences, and business. Multidisciplinary in scope, it 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, the journal 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 one of Hypatia’s core objectives.
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 analyzed with a view to changing social attitudes and academic biases that obstruct a holistic understanding of contributions to the family, community, and wider polity. The journal focuses on issues such as violence, the social organization of the family, the invisibility of women’s work, institutional and policy analyses, women and politics, and motherhood and childcare.
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 across 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.
Articles appearing in the journal analyze gender and gendered processes in interactions, organizations, societies, and global and transnational spaces. The journal primarily publishes empirical articles that are theoretically engaged and methodologically rigorous, including qualitative, quantitative, and comparative approaches. It also publishes reviews of books from a diverse array of social science disciplines.
JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies
Journal of Feminist, Gender and Women Studies
Published by the University Institute of Women’s Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, this multidisciplinary journal accepts articles in English and Spanish and is peer reviewed. Its aim is to produce academic knowledge on feminism, gender, and women’s studies from an international perspective.
This journal is especially valuable for Ibero-American and European perspectives, with a focus on contemporary feminism, gender policies, education, and culture. It provides access to high-quality research in more than one language.
Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
An academic journal that explores gender, social policy, and law, combining legal analysis with questions of gender, work, family, health, and human rights.
Focused on the intersection of public policy and gender law, it is especially useful for research that connects critical theory with political action and legal reform.
Journal of Gender Studies
Publishes research on the social constructions of gender, sex, and gender relations from a feminist perspective across the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and popular culture.
Journal of International Women’s Studies
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.
Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies
Journal of Sex Research
Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education
Journal of Women, Politics & Policy
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 high-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, theoretical and conceptual articles, reviews of 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, theoretical articles, teaching briefs, and invited book reviews related to the psychology of women and gender. Topics include feminist approaches, methodologies, and critiques; violence against women; body image and objectification; sexism, stereotyping, and discrimination; intersectionality of gender with other social locations; international concerns; lifespan development; physical and mental well-being; therapeutic interventions; sexuality; social activism; and career development.
This journal is 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 advocacy, policy making, and teacher education.
Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades / Journal of Gender & Sexuality Studies (REGS)
REGS is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes work on gender and sexuality in Hispanic, Lusophone, and Latin American literatures, arts, film, and cultures. It includes critical articles, interviews with artists and scholars, and analyses of works relevant to the field.
Sexuality and Gender Studies Journal (SGSJ)
SGSJ is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles on gender and sexuality, with a focus on topics such as culture, technology, gender violence, trans studies, children’s literature, and inequality. It publishes biannual issues with international research.
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Studies in Women’s Literature
Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, the first journal devoted solely to women’s literature, has for decades 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.
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 analyzes the theory and politics of sexual difference in literature, the media, history, education, law, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the performing and visual arts. In addition to articles, each issue includes a substantial review section and often features interviews with figures who have made significant interventions in current debates about gender and feminism.
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 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 that aids 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. It welcomes contributions from people in different countries and backgrounds who are engaged in feminist research inside or outside formal educational institutions.
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 topics such as activisms, the global and the intimate, the sexual body, trans, technologies, and motherhood, combining psychoanalytic, legal, queer, cultural, technological, and historical work to present innovative scholarship that engages both popular and academic readers.
WSQ is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published twice a year. Along with scholarship from multiple disciplines, it showcases fiction and creative nonfiction, poetry, book reviews, and the visual arts.