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Gender Studies

Last update:
17.06.2008

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Advancing Women in Leadership
Advancing Women in Leadership On-line Journal was launched in 1997 with the intent of publishing manuscripts that report, synthesize, review, or analyze scholarly inquiry that focuses on women's issues.
The intent of this journal is to encourage and support the proliferation of women in positions of leadership in all aspects of professional and corporate America.
Duke Journal of Gerder Law & Policy
Published by the Law School of Duke University, since 1997 one issue per year.
"It is an interdisciplinary publication devoted to discussion and consideration of gender issues in the context of law and public policy. The journal encourages works from multiple perspectives, with particular emphasis on practical analysis, in an effort to identify the connections between social science and the law, scholarship and public policy, and academic work and professional practice.."
Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality
To disseminate knowledge about all aspects of human sexuality to the widest possible international community at moderate cost. 
Feminist Africa
This is a publication of the African Gender Institute and its Strengthening Gender & Women's Studies for Africa's Transformation (GWS Africa) Project.
Feminist Africa provides a forum for progressive, cutting-edge gender research and feminist dialogue focused on the continent. By prioritising intellectual rigor, the journal seeks to challenge the technocratic fragmentation resulting from donor-driven and narrowly developmentalist work on gender in Africa. It also encourages innovation in terms of style and subject-matter as well as design and lay-out. It promotes dialogue by stimulating experimentation as well as new ways of engaging with text for readers.
Genders
Genders publishes essays about gender and sexuality in relation to social, political, artistic and economic concerns.
Especially in the fields: Historical and cross-cultural approaches to contemporary social issues and Discussions of particular works of art, literature, journalism, television, music, photography, video, film, or performance that address a cultural or social issue.
Gender Forum
Edited at the Universaity of Köln. Three issues per year since 2002
gender forum is an electronic journal dedicated to the discussion of women's and gender studies. It developed out of gender Inn, a database for gender and women's studies providing annotated bibliographic records of feminist theory, gender and queer studies, feminist literary criticism and gender-related literature from various other fields.
International Family Planning Perspectives
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive health
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health (formerly, Family Planning Perspectives) provides the latest peer-reviewed, policy-relevant research and analysis on sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United States and other industrialized countries.
Intersections: gender, history & culture in the Asian context
Intersections is a refereed electronic journal conceived as an interactive forum for new research and teaching in the area of Gender Studies in the Asian region. It stems from Murdoch University's School of Asian Studies and was originally published with the financial assistance of the Division of Social Sciences, Humanities and Education.
JENDA A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies
 Irregular since 2000
Jenda is a peer refereed academic journal of Africa Resource Center, Inc.  As an academic publication, JENDA is committed to disseminating to as wide an audience as possible, the research findings, analyses, and interpretations of scholars whose field is African Women studies.
The Journal of Family Welfare
The Journal of Family Welfare founded in 1954 is published biannually by the Family Planning Association of Indai.
The Journal of Family Welfare is devoted to discussing views and providing information on all aspects of sexual and reproductive health including family planning and related issues, methods of fertility control, and questions pertaining to education for marriage and family living.
Journal of International Women's Studies
The Journal of International Women's Studies is an on-line, open-access, peer reviewed journal that provides a forum for scholars, activists, and students to explore the relationship between feminist theory and various forms of organizing. The journal seeks both multidisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives, and invites submissions in the form of scholarly articles, student papers and literary pieces. Through its diverse collection, the journal aims to create an opportunity for building bridges across the conventional divides of scholarship and activism; "western" and "third world" feminisms; professionals and students; men and women. Toward this end, the editors encourage responses to previous submissions in forthcoming editions, facilitated by the journal's on-line format.
lectio difficilior
The Journal appears twice a year in Bern.
lectio difficilior is the first European refereed journal for feminist exegesis, hermeneutics and related disciplines (classical philology, archeology, egyptology, studies of the ancient Near Middle East, ancient history, history of art, social sciences, psychology, e.a.).

Lola Press
The international feminist magazine edited by an editorial group, living in three continents. And with lots of authors from all over the world. Lolapress is the magazine that deals with women's lives, the regional, the political, the cultural experiences of women, the different kind of feminism and with a lot of other subjects. Our objective is to diffuse and promote the international debates, informing on the circulating ones and stimulating others.

Outskirts: Feminisms along the Edge
Outskirts is a feminist, cultural studies journal published twice yearly at this site in May and November.

Its aim is to provide a space in which new and challenging critical material from a range of disciplinary perspectives and addressing a range of feminist topics and issues is brought together to discuss and contest contemporary and historical issues involving women and feminisms. Outskirts is a fully refereed academic journal. Each submission is read by one member of the editorial board and if it is considered suitable for publication, sent to an outside, academic referee. This report will be sent to the writer. If the board member considers the paper requires revision, another board member will read it and together they will advise the writer about what needs to be done for resubmission.
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health (formerly, Family Planning Perspectives) provides the latest peer-reviewed, policy-relevant research and analysis on sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United States and other industrialized countries.
Said it 
E- Journal on Feminist News in Culture and Politics
Thirdspace: A Journal for Emerging Feminist Scholars
The mandate is to raise the profile of feminist scholars and scholarship; offer emerging feminist scholars more opportunities for professional development; share information related to the politics of graduate school and careers in academia; and contribute to building a more collegial - and more productive - academic community. We want to act now to develop skills and networks that will serve this community of emerging scholars that will become a vital part of the academic establishment in the future.
Women in Judaism: a multidisciplinary journal 
This is an academic, refereed journal published exclusively on the Internet, and devoted to scholarly debate on gender-related issues in Judaism. The ultimate aim of the journal is to promote the reconceptualization of the study of Judaism, by acknowledging and incorporating the roles played by women, and by encouraging the development of alternative research paradigms. Cross-methodological and interdisciplinary, the journal does not promote a fixed ideology, and welcomes a variety of approaches.
Women's Health and Urban Life
The WH & UL is a peer reviewed journal located at the Sociology Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. The funding for the journal is provided by the Wellesley Central Health Corporation, Toronto, Canada. The journal addresses a wide range of topics that directly or indirectly affect both the physical and mental health of girls, teenage and adult women living in urban or urbanizing pockets of the world. The orientation of the journal is critical, feminist and social scientific. The journal accepts both quantitative and qualitative, and both theoretical and empirical articles.
Women's Studies International Forum
Women's Studies International Forum (formerly Women's Studies International Quarterly , established in 1978) is a bimonthly journal to aid the distribution and exchange of feminist research in the multidisciplinary, international area of women's studies and in feminist research in other disciplines. The policy of the journal is to establish a feminist forum for discussion and debate. If you are interested in more than 12 months' access, check whether your institute has signed up to ScienceDirect
The journal seeks to critique and reconceptualize existing knowledge, to examine and re-evaluate the manner in which knowledge is produced and distributed, and to assess the implications this has for women's lives. The journal seeks to critique and reconceptualize existing knowledge, to examine and re-evaluate the manner in which knowledge is produced and distributed, and to assess the implications this has for women's lives. The journal seeks to critique and reconceptualize existing knowledge, to examine and re-evaluate the manner in which knowledge is produced and distributed, and to assess the implications this has for women's lives. The journal seeks to critique and reconceptualize existing knowledge, to examine and re-evaluate the manner in which knowledge is produced and distributed, and to assess the implications this has for women's lives.
 

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Prof. Hans Geser

Soziologisches Institut
der Universität Zürich
Andreasstr. 15  8050 Zürich

hg@socio.ch

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Soziologisches Institut 
der Universität Zürich
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