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.
Current Issue: Volume 25, Issue 7 (2023)
Editors Introduction
Editors' Introduction
Priyanka Tripathi, Kimberly Davis, and Catherine Ndinda
Articles
Gender Discrimination in Hong Kong Churches
Caroline C. Yih
A Listening Guide Analysis of Bisi’s Story of Living with Female Genital Mutilation
Chinyere Elsie Ajayi and Sunday Ajayi
The Racial Swamps of Reconstruction: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Life in Post-Civil War Florida
Elif S. Armbruster
Women Supporting Women: A Glass Ceiling for Women Politicians in Ibadan, Nigeria
Chisaa Onyekachi Igbolekwu, Chukwubueze Ogadimma Arisukwu, Judith Ifunanya Ani, Eunice Uwadinma-Idemudia, and Omowumi Oluwaseun Agbemuko
Older Women as Active Online Agents: Diversifying Cultural Conceptions of “Grannies” through Social Media
Hanna Varjakoski
“I’m Different from You but Very Much Like You”: Religious Women Activists and their Father Figures
Ayelet Makaros and Edith Blit-Cohen
Travails of New Mothers Returning to Work in Corporate India: A Phenomenological Study
Anil Jose Thomas and N. T. Sudhesh
We Deliver: The Condition of the Woman Academic in India Today
Ananya Dutta Gupta
A Contextual Analysis of the Feminization of Poverty in Urban Slums of Pakistan
Humaira Zulfiqar and Ra’ana Malik
A Review of the Cultural Gender Norms Contributing to Gender Inequality in Ghana: An Ecological Systems Perspective
Portia Nartey, Ozge Sensoy Bahar, and Proscovia Nabunya
The Role of Pregnant Women’s Attachment Relationships in Predicting Maternal Adjustment during Pregnancy
Mahshid Zamani, Parisa Sadat Seyed Mousavi, and Ali Reza-Pezhman
Women and Vulnerable Employment in the Developing World: Evidence from Pakistan
Zubaria Andlib and Sameen Zafar
Film Reviews
Joyland: A Story of Unquenchable Desires
Salma Javed
Natchathiram Nagargirathu (The Star Is Moving): Challenging the Stereotypes of Dalit Women in Film
Chandrakant Kamble
Revisiting Marriage and Motherhood: Celebrating Choices in Tribhanga
Meenakshi Jha and Katyayani
Book Reviews
Book Review: Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
Jacob Koski
Book Review Essays
Book Review Essay: Race and Reproduction in Cuba
Zyanya Gutiérrez
Book Review Essay: Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World
Hale Demir-Doğuoğlu
Short Story
Shall Her Eyes Rest: A Story of a Syrian Refugee
Hamza Qasem and Manal al-Natour
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
Emma Shanley, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA
Abby Tenters, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA
Tak Kelley, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA