Feminist Studies

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Feminist Studies

description American academic journal for women's studies
publishing company Feminist Studies, Inc.
First edition 1972
Frequency of publication 3 times a year
Editor-in-chief Ashwini Tambe
Web link http://www.feministstudies.org/ quod.lib.umich.edu/f/fs/; http://www.feministstudies.org/
Article archive quod.lib.umich.edu/f/fs/0499697.*
ISSN 0046-3663
ZDB 2067210-X

Feminist Studies is a US academic journal specializing in women's studies . The editorial office is based at the University of Maryland . Feminist Studies is the oldest continuously published journal in the field of women's studies in the United States.

subjects

The articles published in the journal are interdisciplinary and have a feminist perspective in common. They are characterized by the diversity of their genres (research articles, reviews, political comments, interviews, design work). Often, gender aspects are linked to questions of cultural identity, sexual orientation, income issues, geographical location and physical ability or inability.

Founding history

Until the late 1960s, academic research on women's history , women's studies, and women in literary studies only used empirical approaches. Because of this under-balance in various academic disciplines, feminist scholars came together in 1969 to found a journal that would serve as an analytical forum.

Founding members were the Women's Liberation Group of Columbia University , students of Sarah Lawrence College , the MLA committee on the status of women in literary studies , which has been working since 1970, and feminist activists from New York. Together, the group first published their essays and papers in New York in 1972 in a journal that they called Feminist Studies . The first editor, Ann Calderwood, financed the project out of her own pocket until 1977, so that only a few issues could appear until then.

In the course of the rapidly growing discipline of women's studies, the journal was restructured and published in the same year by a group of female academics. It found its new home at the University of Maryland, where Claire G. Moses , who remained editor-in-chief for over three decades, published it with a small paid staff. The University of Maryland made office space and a small grant for the magazine in College Park. The current editor is Ashwini Tambe. Feminist Studies is a member of the international Feminist Journals Network (FJN).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b newpages, Feminist Studies.
  2. ^ A b Ginette Castro: American Feminism: A Contemporary History. Translation into English by Elizabeth Loverde-Bagwell, New York University Press, New York 1990, p. 147. ISBN 0-8147-1448-X .
  3. ↑ a b c History. Feminist Studies.
  4. ↑ Ashwini Tambe. Feminist Studies.