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Open-Access, Online Feminist Journals

Hi Everyone:

Would folks be interested in helping me put together a list of open-access, online, peer-reviewed feminist journals?  

I'd like to put a list together so those of us interested in feminist research and scholarship are aware of some of the publishing outlets available. I'm particularly interested in open-access journals as they embody a feminist spirit of openness and sharing.

I'll get the list started. Feel free to add to the list by leaving a comment; I'll then add your recommendation to the list. (If you can include the link to the journal you're sharing, we'd appreciate it!):

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28 comments

dehertoghlb

Hi Moya,

I like that idea too!  Are you interested in creating a new thread/post for these journals?  :)

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moyazb

it will take a moment for me to get to it but anyone else should feel free to go with it!

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dehertoghlb

Hi Jacquie,

Thank you for sharing; I've added these to the list!  Also, do you know if the nomorepotlucks journal is peer-reviewed?  It was hard to tell from the website.

Thanks again!  :)

Lori Beth

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jwallace

Great idea, Lori Beth!

A couple more that come to mind are (open-access, although not expressly feminist per se but definitely publish feminist, queer, postcolonial and other critical traditions):

nomorepotlucks

fibre culture

 

Best,

Jacquie

 

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trentmkays

 

Wonderful idea. Though, I don't think Fibreculture is technically a feminist journal. Or, at least, they aren't an explicit one. 

Anyway, here's a list of 14 open access feminist-oriented journals. 

tmk

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dehertoghlb

Hi Trent,

Thank you for sharing.  I ferreted out the journals in English (although we can certainly add non-English language journals if folks are interested) as well as the one's I could find a working link to.

By the way, I didn't know about the DOAJ. That's a neat resource!

Best,

Lori Beth 

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Rebecca.Harris

I think the journal Genders is still open access as well, peer-reviewed and published online only.

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dehertoghlb

Hi Rebecca,

Would you mind sharing the link to the journal?  Thanks!

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sulu

Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice

http://journals.msvu.ca/index.php/atlantis/index

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dehertoghlb

Thank you for sharing, Susanne.  I've added this journal to the list.

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moyazb

I wonder to about open source/access queer and Black studies generals, too. What a great idea!

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jwallace

Hi again Lori Beth,

I would say that nomorepotlucks is curated, but not explicity peer-reviewed in a traditional academic sense. However, I think that is also part of a feminist ethic and questioning the hierachies and power structures that feminist, open-access publishing is working tot break open.

We also discussed this issue in-depth among the Fembot Collective relative to Ada and landed on the need to recognize institutional expectations and barriers, while not endeavouring to reproduce them but rather to renegotiate them.

Love the list. Thank you for your efforts here.

Best,

Jacquie

 

 

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dorothyk98

Medieval Feminist Forum is an open-access (as far as I know), feminist, online, double peer-reviewed journal. We publish twice a year. It's a journal that is run and supported by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship. http://ir.uiowa.edu/mff/

Thanks. 

Sincerely, 

Dorothy Kim 

Secretary, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship

 

 

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dehertoghlb

Hi Dorothy,

Thank you for sharing this journal. (Which by the way is really neat!)  I've added it to the ever-growing list.

Lori Beth 

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deantiquate

Hi all:

Tessera (1984-2005)  fits into your category and can be found here: https://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/tessera

best,

Anna St.Onge

 

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dehertoghlb

Hi Anna,

Thank you for sharing this journal!  From the Tessera website, I ran across the Canadian Woman Studies journal, but regrettably it is not open-access.

Thank you again for sharing,

Lori Beth 

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dehertoghlb

Hi All:

FYI:  I've added a few more journals to the list. 

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tekla

This is a great resource, Lori. Thank you for putting it together!

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magdalena

What a great resource!

 

Thank you.

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magdalena

What a great resource!

 

Thank you.

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dehertoghlb

Hi Magdalena,

I'm glad you find it helpful!  Feel free to add to the list. 

Cheers,

Lori Beth 

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paul boshears

The Directory of Open Access Journals is probably the best place to look for Open Access journals, you could also try Open Humanities Press, re.press is an open access publisher of books.

I very much love what the folks at punctum books are doing—publishing Open Access books and journals.

Lies—a journal of materialist feminism isn't explicitly Open Access, but they do offer PDF downloads of their print journal for free (what Fuchs and Sandoval call the "Diamond Model of Open Access").

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dehertoghlb

Hi Paul,

Thank you for the recommendation.  I've added the journal to our ever-growing list.

Lori Beth 

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Liz Kinnamon

Hi Lori Beth! 

Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory is still published through Taylor & Francis but we've started posting articles from each issue open-access to our website. 

Liz

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Jordan Von Cannon

This is an excellent idea and a wonderful resource.  I'll do some looking tonight, and see if I can find any to add to the list!

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dehertoghlb

Thanks for letting us know, Liz.  I'll add Women & Performance to the list. Also, I dig the journal's website--very cool!

Jordan: I'm so glad you appreciate this resource; please feel free to send along any additional resources/journals you run across.  :)

Lori Beth 

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dehertoghlb
Hi Folks,
 
I just added another journal—Genders—to the list.  Be sure to check it out!
 
Lori Beth 
 
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dehertoghlb

Hi Everyone,

I just added the journal Feral Feminisms (what an edgy name!) to our ever-growing list.

Remember: if you run across an open-access, online feminist journal, please let me know so I can add it. You can either 1.) post a comment here or 2.) tweet it to me @lbdehertogh

Lori Beth

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