Australian Feminist Studies
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Description: As an international, peer reviewed journal, Australian Feminist Studies publishes
academic articles from throughout the world which contribute to current developments in
Women's Studies and feminist research. This includes feminist scholarship and
critique based within mainstream academic disciplines, and research and discussion that
transcends the conventional boundaries between academic disciplines or fields such as
cultural studies. We also aim to encourage discussion of interactions between feminist
theory and practice; consideration of government and trade union policies that concern
women; comment on changes in educational curricula relevant to Women's Studies;
sharing of innovative course outlines, reading lists and teaching/learning strategies;
reports on local, national and international conferences; reviews, critiques, enthusiasm
and correspondence.
Body and Society
Publisher: Sage Publications
Description: "Body & Society centrally concerns itself with debates in feminism, technology, ecology, postmodernism, medicine, ethics and consumerism which take the body as the central analytic issue in the questioning of established paradigms."
Critical Social Policy
Social Policy: A Journal of Theory and Practice in Social Welfare
Publisher: Sage Publications
Description: Provides an international forum to develop an understanding of welfare from socialist,
feminist, antiracist and radical perspectives. Encouraging contributions from a variety of
perspectives and experiences, the journal is aimed at those who are actively involved in
welfare issues through pressure groups, consumer groups and community action;
practitioners and workers in statutory and voluntary agencies; and teachers and
researchers in social welfare issues and social policy.
Cultural Critique
Description: Since its first issue, Cultural Critique has brought together some of the most
important work in the field of cultural analysis. Perhaps no other journal investigates
cultural interpretation from such a broad perspective and from such an international point
of view. The journal takes an interdisciplinary approach to cultural criticism, covering
literary, philosophical, anthropological, and sociological studies and using Marxist,
feminist, psychoanalytic, and post-structural methods. It draws on a large group of
international corresponding editors to gather articles that examine interllectual
controversies, trends, and movements in various parts of the world.
Differences: Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Description: Differences focuses on how concepts and categories of difference - notably but
not exclusively gender - operate within culture. Situated at the point of intersection of
cultural studies and feminism, differences is affiliated with the Pembroke Center for
Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University. It is published three times a year.
Ethics and the Environment
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Description: Ethics and the Environment is a new, interdisciplinary forum for theoretical and
practical articles, discussions, reviews, comments, and book reviews in the broad area
encompassed by environmental ethics. Supported by the Humanities Centre, the Philosophy
Department, and the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program at the University of Georgia,
and edited by Victoria Davion, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, the
journal will focus on conceptual approaches in ethical theory and ecological philosophy,
including deep ecology and ecological feminism as they pertain to environmental issues
such as environmental education and management, ecological economics, and ecosystem
health.
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European Journal of Women's Studies
Publisher: Sage Publications
Description: A multidisciplinary, academic, feminist journal which has as its main focus the nature of
the complex relationship between women and the diverse regions and meanings of Europe.
Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resource
Description: Feminist Collections contains news of the latest print and audiovisual resources
for research and teaching in women's studies. Recent book reviews have treated such
subjects as African American women writers, lesbians in popular culture, and women in the
international marketplace. There are guides to new bibliographies and reference works,
film and video critiques, computer updates, and news of out-of-the-way materials --
pamphlets, reports, rare book dealers' catalogs, microforms, and more. Thoughtful articles
by experts explore women's publishing, Internet resources, library organization, archives,
and other tools for feminist scholarship. New periodicals and special issues of journals
in other disciplines are announced in each issue.
Feminist Legal Studies
Publisher: Kluwer
Description: Feminist Legal Studies is a leading European journal of feminist legal studies, with
special interests in both the application of law to women's issues, and contemporary
debates in feminist legal theory.
Feminist Review
Description: "Feminist Review today aims to reinvigorate materialist feminist debate. The journal's preoccupations are firmly grounded in the socio-economic realities of women's lives. In this it does not construct or support an opposition between the representational and the material. Instead the journal aims to move beyond that opposition - to promote materialist work which is informed by both socio-economic and cultural representational issues."
Feminist Studies
Description: Feminist Studies was founded to encourage analytic responses to feminist issues
and to open new areas of research, criticism, and speculation. The editors are committed
to providing a forum for feminist analysis, debate, and exchange.
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Feminist Theory
Publisher: Sage Publications
Description: "Feminist Theory is an international interdisciplinary 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. In addition to longer articles, Feminist Theory publishes short "think pieces", comments on past articles and theoretical reflections on topical issues. Readers are encouraged to respond to these contributions, thus fostering ongoing debate and exchanges of ideas."
Gender and History
Publisher: Blackwells
Description: Gender and History is an international journal for research and writing
on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations.
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Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Description: Hypatia is a journal for scholarly research at the intersection of philosophy and
women's studies. Edited by Linda Lopez McAlister, Joanne Waugh, and Cheryl Hall, has its
roots in the Society for Women in Philosophy, many of whose members have for years
envisioned a regular publication devoted to feminist philosophy. Hypatia is the
realization of that vision; it is intended to encourage and communicate many different
kinds of feminist philosophy.
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Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Group
Description: "The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion is a scholarly journal designed to provide both a medium for feminist research in religion and a forum for discussion for the widest possible range of feminist voices. Each issue contains a selection of articles; bibliographical essays (mapping out particular areas of feminist research, designed as aids in teaching women's studies in religion); round-table discussions of important books, articles and central issues in feminist thought; reports and analyses of creative attempts to put feminist theory to work in a variety of contexts; and letters."
Radical Philosophy
Description: "Radical Philosophy is a journal of socialist and feminist philosophy. Radical Philosophy is not committed to any particular philosophy, ideology or political programme. The purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for debate and discussion of theoretical issues on the left. It encourages the serious and informed discussion of such issues in clear and non-technical language, aimed to reach a wide audience. As well as major academic articles, it has a large and diverse book reviews section (covering 12-15 books per issue), as well as News and Commentary sections."
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Description: Founded in 1975, Signs is recognized as the leading international journal in
women's studies. The essays appearing in Signs cut across disciplines, across
various feminist perspectives, and across the divisions between academic thought and daily
life - all in an ongoing effort to illuminate and improve the culture to which we all
belong.
