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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.

Dear JIWS authors and readers: the JIWS has received such a robust number of submissions that our issues are full through January 2024. We will continue to publish special issues through 1/15/24, as well as our regular issues in January 2023, August 2023, and January 2024. As a result, we are closing submissions until December 2023 when the submission link will again be opened. As many of you know, we are a small team; the Executive Editorial team and our Editorial Review Board are volunteer positions. This suspension period will allow us to produce high quality issues that we hope will educate and inspire. Thank you for your understanding—the JIWS Editorial Staff.

Current Issue: Volume 25, Issue 4 (2023)

Editors Introduction

Executive Editors’ Introduction
Catherine Ndinda, Priyanka Tripathi, and Kimberly Davis

Articles

Embracing the Changes: A Study Examining the Career Intentions of Saudi Women Undergraduates
Beverley McNally and Carmen Winkel

Australian Health Professionals Identify Barriers to Asian Women’s Sexual Health
Sandra Basham and Jaya Dantas

Nollywood Cinema as a Tool for Pro-Lesbian Advocacy: A Feminist Reading of Unaiedu Ikpe-Etim’s Ife
Floribert Patrick C. Endong

Do Legal and Institutional Reforms in Punjab, Pakistan Protect Women’s Inherited Land Rights?
Iram Rubab, Beenish Malik, and Zujajah Bakht Aziz

Student Perceptions of Gender Studies as an Academic Discipline in Pakistan
Rabbia Aslam and Saad Ali Khan

Mary Sidney’s The Tragedy of Antony and Fadwa Tuqan’s A Mountainous Journey: Language, Gender Politics, and the Emergence of Authorial Identities
Bilal Hamamra

The Impact of the Anglophone Crisis on Gender Equality in Cameroon
Community Centre for Integrated Development (CCID)

Perspectives of Women Police Officers in the Union Territory of Puducherry, India
Chemmalar S.

Muslim Women’s Rights Discourses in Kerala: Case Study of a Marginalized Group
P. Shabna

Women’s Empowerment and Modern Contraceptive Use: Evidence from Four Southeast Asian Countries
Chiew Way Ang and Siow Li Lai

Do Women’s Education and Economic Empowerment Reduce Gender-based Violence in Nigeria?
Adaobiagu Nnemdi Obiagu

Tackling Menstrual Poverty: A Substantive Equality Approach to the Right to Education
Aniketh Rao

Use of Technology by Ecuadorian Teachers: An Exploratory Study about Gender Roles
Ximena D. Burgin

Gender-Based Conflicts in Political Parties: Male Domination in Central Java’s Politics
Misbah Zulfa Elizabeth, Ririh Megah Safitri, Sholihan Sholihan, and Arikhah .

Women’s Resistance to Toba Batak Umpasa from a Feminist Perspective
Ratih Baiduri and Elly Prihasti Wuriyani

Irigaray’s Feminine Language in Joyce Johnson’s Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
Vida Rahiminezhad and Mahdieh Sadat Faal Nazari

Happiness, Life Satisfaction, and Gender Equality at the Micro and Macro Levels
Aslı Ermiş-Mert

Analyzing Global and Local Media Representations of Malala Yousafzai
Aman Ullah, Zafar Khan, Mahrukh Shakir, Zahid Ali Shah, and Rahman Ullah

Essay

Born into Expectations
Lyndah N. Wasike

Film Reviews

Film Review: What Makes Her a Maja Ma?
V. K. Karthika

Film Review: Indigenous Epistemology, Media, and the Representation of Women in Kantara
Argha Basu and Priyanka Tripathi

Film Review: Sonata—A Confluence of Diverse “Female” Sensibilities
Avishek Deb and Pinak Sankar

Film Review: Silent Beauty: An Autobiography on Healing From Child Sexual Abuse
Mohosin Mandal

Book Reviews

Book Review: Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in the US Congress
Ashley Lee

Book Review: Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present
Linor Kadoch

Book Review: A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil
Paloma Czapla

Executive Editors

Kimberly Chabot Davis, Department of English, Bridgewater State University

Diana Fox, Department of Anthropology, Bridgewater State University (on leave until Sept. 2024)

Catherine Ndinda, Human Science Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

Priyanka Tripathi, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India

Book Review Editor

Madhavi Venkatesan, Department of Economics, Northeastern University, MA , USA

Film Review Editors

Mohosin Mandal, Department of English, MIET College, India

Avishek Deb, Department of English, Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management University (GITAM), Bangalore, India

Editorial Assistants

Megan Griffin, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA

Tak Kelley, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA