Call for Papers! Journal of International Women’s Studies! Volume 26, Issue 1 (2024)! Submit Now!
About This Journal
The Journal of International Women’s Studies is an on-line, open-access, peer reviewed feminist journal that provides a forum for scholars, activists, and students to explore the relationships among theories of gender and sexuality and various forms of organizing and critical practice. The journal seeks both multidisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives, and invites submissions in the form of scholarly articles, essays, book reviews, and works of fiction. In addition, the Journal supports multi-media submissions through streaming audio capability, embedded video, and links to video sites to display short films and other visual materials. Through its diverse collection, the journal aims to create an opportunity for building bridges across the conventional divides of scholarship and activism; “western” and “third world” feminisms; professionals and students; men, women and all genders and the hegemony of ableism. Toward this end, the editors welcome your constructive and insightful comments in response to our publications.
The JIWS is currently indexed with the Library of Congress. The ISSN assignment for “Journal of International Women’s Studies” is ISSN 1539-8706.
General Submission Guidelines
Currently, we are not accepting new submissions as we catch up on the work of publishing already accepted articles. The submission link is temporarily closed and will be reopened on January 1, 2024. We recommend that contributions be less than 7,500 words, inclusive of footnotes and bibliography, but we will consider longer texts if warranted by the subject matter. All submissions must contribute to the feminist mission of the journal, as detailed in “About This Journal” on our website. Only completed work should be submitted for consideration on our online portal; authors who wish to consult with editors about work-in-progress should reach out via email to: [email protected]. Contributions submitted to this journal should NOT be under consideration for publication elsewhere. All submissions go through a blind peer-review process, which typically takes 3-4 months for initial review. There is NO FEE to publish in the JIWS. While submitting your document, ensure you select from one of the following document categories:
- Articles are written by scholars, researchers, or professionals who are experts in their fields, publishing the results of research.
- Essays are also written by scholars, researchers, or professionals and include more subjective, personal and interpersonal reflective content, often challenging the norms of scholarly article formats across various disciplines. While feminist scholarly articles, rooted in feminist theory can also involve more subjective content essays largely reflect on research, scholarship, academic and professional norms to a greater degree through the lens of feminist ideals.
- Feminist reflections are unconventional first-person reflections in a blog or vlog format heightening the personal reflective component found in essays. There is less attention to conventional and scholarly modes of citation.
- Fictional/creative works are also encouraged. We seek poetry, short stories, short plays, videos, vlogs or links to vlogs, blogs or links to blogs, photos of artworks, videos of short performance pieces, all of which should aim to heighten awareness of patriarchy, intersectional inequalities, and women’s subordination, and may also seek to transform these conditions and social inequalities.
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