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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, policymakers, 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, personal essays, policy briefs, book reviews, film reviews, and creative work (fiction, poetry, and digital texts). The JIWS 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 all genders and sexualities and across the conventional divides of scholarship and activism, professionals and students. We aim to work against the hegemony of not only sexism and misogyny but also ableism, racism, homophobia, and transphobia. As a transnational feminist journal, we seek to challenge the homogeneous portrayal of “Western feminism,” feminisms from the Global South, and indeed all feminisms. The editors of the JIWS expect our authors to engage with feminisms in complex and layered ways that acknowledge their multiplicity, and to question limited and false notions of “Western feminism” and “Third World feminism” as monolithic entities. 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.

The Journal is indexed with the MLA International Bibliography, The International Bibliography of Social Sciences, EBSCO, Elsevier Bibliographic Databases, Ulrich’s Periodicals, the Gale Group, ProQuest Bibliographical References and SCOPUS. Please find the link: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/145252?origin=resultslist