Research Guides: Women's and Gender Studies: Additional Info/Advanced

Core WGS Journals at Roosevelt

Browse journals to see what's happening in the field of Women's and Gender Studies.

Although you can create an efficient article search using the databases on the home page of this research guide (and search hundreds of journals at once), you can also go directly to any of these journals by clicking the link. All journals listed have full-text electronic availability including back issues to current issue.

Feminist Economics
Peer-reviewed journal providing an open forum for dialogue and debate about feminist economic perspectives. Intent of journal is not just to develop more illuminating theories but to improve the conditions of living for all children, women, and men. Print issues available AUD 10th Floor-Reference: 1999 to present.
Feminist Studies
Scholarly and political content that foregrounds women as a social group and gender as a category of analysis. Print issues available AUD 10th Floor-Reference: 1981 to 2008.
Gender and Society
Social and structural study of gender as a basic principle of the social order and primary social category. Emphasizing theory and research from micro- and macrostructual perspectives. Features original research, reviews, international perspectives, and book reviews from diverse social science disciplines, including anthropology, economics, history, political science, sociology and social psychology. Print issues available AUD 10th Floor-Reference: 1989 to 2008.
Meridians
Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism provides a forum for the finest scholarship and creative work by and about women of color in U.S. and international contexts. The goal of Meridians is to make scholarship by and about women of color central to contemporary definitions of feminisms in the exploration of women's economic conditions, their political practices, the articulation of histories, geographies, cultures, and sexualities, as well as the focus and meanings of resistance and activis
NWSA Journal
Official publication of the National Women's Studies Association publishing the most up-to-date, interdisciplinary, multicultural feminist scholarship linking feminist theory with teaching and activism. It regularly includes essays focusing on feminist scholarship, reviews of books, teaching materials, films and more. Back issues from 1988 available in Academic Search Premier database.
Psychology of Women Quarterly
Feminist journal that publishes primarily qualitative and quantitative research with substantive and theoretical merit, along with critical reviews, theoretical articles, and invited book reviews related to the psychology of women and gender. Print issues available AUD 10th Floor-Reference: 2001 to 2008.
Signs
Signs publishes pathbreaking articles of interdisciplinary interest addressing gender, race, culture, class, nation, and/or sexuality either as central focuses or as constitutive analytics; symposia engaging comparative, interdisciplinary perspectives from around the globe to analyze concepts and topics of import to feminist scholarship; retrospectives that track the growth and development of feminist scholarship, note transformations in key concepts and methodologies, and construct genealogies
Woman's Art Journal
Represents the interests of women and the art worldwide. Articles and reviews cover all areas of women in the visual arts, from antiquity to the present day. Each issue presents current research on a variety of topics, featuring "portraits" of women artists, "issues and insights," and discerning reviews of recent books and exhibition catalogues. Print issues available AUD 10th Floor-Reference: 1999 to 2006.
Women & Perfromance: A Journal of Feminist Theory
Peer reviewed scholarly essays on performance, dance, film, new media. Explores critiques of race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, technology and nation from interdisciplinary feminist perspectives.
Women's Studies Quarterly
Peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published in June and December combining contemporary developments in feminist theory and scholarship with essays, poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and the visual arts. Since 1972 WSQ has been an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of emerging perspectives on women, gender, and sexuality. Print issues available AUD 10th Floor-Reference: 1985 to present.

Selected Websites for Women and Gender Studies

These freely available websites are meant to be helpful to researchers in Womens and Gender Studies. They are not subscription-based article databases where one would find scholarly articles, but are carefully selected by the subject librarian in collaboration with faculty and are generally thought to be credible. However, please evaluate these for your purposes before using them.

Image from Bryn Maw'r "History of Women's Studies" http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/5856