Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies

For our newest issue, #46.3, we are featuring author Jordan Lea Johnson, author of “Angelina in the Archives: Tracing Heteropatriarchy and Settler Colonialism in Local Histories of the Pineywoods.” Check out her Frontiers Augmented post--> frontiers.utah.edu/jordan-lea-j...

This week, during #BlackHistoryMonth, we want to point our readers to two new book reviews on Frontiers Augmented that discuss recent publications by Black authors that advance scholarship on Black women and feminisms: frontiers.utah.edu/black-specul... and frontiers.utah.edu/black-gurl-r...

#CallforPapers! Frontiers is seeking submissions for a new special issue titled “What Are Feminist Quantitative Methods? New Frontiers in the Field.” Read the full call & submission information: frontiers.utah.edu/what-are-fem...

Frontiers Volume 46, Number 3 is now published in print and online! This general issue features intersectional feminist literary and historical analyses, studies of activism and academic labor, and art. Explore the full open access issue here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56120 #feministpublishing

Our 50th anniversary digital special issue on the future of feminism opens with two zines about feminist pedagogy, activism, and youth engagement: "Our Seeds of Change" and “When Did You First Learn About Feminism." Check them out on our site: frontiers.utah.edu/feminist-you...

We’re kicking off the new year with a new #callforpapers! “Conservative Feminisms in the Americas” is an upcoming special issue of Frontiers that investigates how feminism, even as a discourse of resistance, participates in hegemonic projects. Read the full call: frontiers.utah.edu/conservative...

We close out 2025 with the publication of our final Frontiers 50th anniversary project: a digital special issue, “Feminist Youth Engagement: The Future of the Feminist Movement.” You can access the full issue on our site: frontiers.utah.edu/feminist-you...
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The Featured Author for our most recent issue, 46.2, is Dr. Nicolyn Woodcock, author of “The Intimate Labors of World War II: Sex, Race, and Belonging in Lisa See's China Dolls.“ Check out her Augmented post here: frontiers.utah.edu/nicolyn-wood...

Congratulations to Wei Sic Nic Yiu for winning the 2025 NWSA Women of Color Caucus - Frontiers Student Essay Award with their essay, "Work Smart, Not Hard: Chinese Women Massage Workers’ Lessons of Quietly Messing with Work"! Read more about their essay here: www.nwsa.org/annual-confe...

✨NWSA 2025!!✨We had a great conference recognizing the scholarship of our editors & celebrating the journal's 50th anniversary! #frontiersat50

UP Week: WHEN does your press #TeamUp? Happy University Press Week! Help us celebrate university presses November 10-14. Since 2012, members of the Association of University Presses have participated in an annual celebration of University Presses. This year's theme for UP Week is "Team UP," to celebrate the ways that university presses and their authors Team UP with a vast network of reviewers, booksellers, freelancers, translators, librarians, teachers, and students to advance knowledge and understanding.

Today's UP Week blog tour asks "WHEN does your press #TeamUP?"

On the blog, we're observing the 60th and 50th anniversaries of WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE and @frontiersjournal.bsky.social, respectively!

Join us in celebrating the 50th anniversary of Frontiers at the National Women Studies Association Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico! We will host an informal roundtable & reception serving desserts (GF & vegan options), non-alcoholic drinks, and a cash bar. Info below 👇

50 years of Frontiers means 50 years of cover art. We commemorate Frontiers’ many amazing visual artists who have contributed their work to our issues with 5 special posters featuring different covers across each decade. These designs were created by Amy Lage at @univnebpress.bsky.social:

Following “Indigenous People’s Day” in the U.S. this past Monday, we are releasing another “Voices Relevant for Our Times” that recognizes the work on and by Indigenous women over Frontiers’ 50 years: frontiers.utah.edu/voices-relev...

Our second anniversary issue includes an essay written by two members of the current editorial collective, Debjani Chakravarty and Ana Antunes, that focuses on the state of academic feminist publishing in the present. Read the full open access article here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

Our second special “Frontiers at 50” issue is out now! This issue continues our 50th anniversary theme of exploring the history, present day, and emerging paths of Frontiers and #feministpublishing. Check out the full open access issue online: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55545 #frontiersat50

Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Turns Fifty! The Frontiers Editorial Collective is composed of Sarita Gaytán, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Utah; Debjani Chakravarty, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Utah; Kimberly M. Jew, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Theatre and Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah; Wanda Pillow, Ph.D., Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Utah; Silvia Patricia Solís, Ph.D., Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Environmental Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Ana Antunes, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Utah; and Elise Homan, Ph.D., Managing Editor for…

Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Turns Fifty!

On the blog, the @frontiersjournal.bsky.social Editorial Collective celebrates the 50th anniversary of its inaugural issue.

The featured scholars of our first anniversary issue, 46.1, are Trung M. Nguyen & Patti Duncan (Oregon State University), authors of ““Hot Commodities, Cheap Labor Revisited:” Old Frontiers with New Friends, Epistemology of Two Asian Feminists Writing:” frontiers.utah.edu/trung-m-nguy...

As Labor Day weekend begins, we are focusing this next “Voices Relevant for Our Times” on the topic of “women and work.” Check out the list of past Frontiers articles exploring gender & labor on our site: frontiers.utah.edu/voices-relev...

In their contribution to our first anniversary issue, Boisseau and Rellihan reflect on the status, achievements, and aspirations of women’s/gender/ sexuality/feminist studies amidst authoritarian and illiberal backlash in the United States and the world beyond: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

Check out our #openaccess reprint (with a new intro) of Suzanne Lacy's 1977 speech about her feminist art project "Three Weeks in May:" muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

As part of the journal’s 50th anniversary, the Frontiers editorial collective at the University of Utah produced a “Frontiers at 50 Oral History Project" with interviews w/ former editorial members -- check it out in our special online issue: frontiers.utah.edu/frontiers-at...

Our first 50th anniversary special issue opens with a wide-ranging conversation between Clare Hemmings & Robyn Wiegman about the institutional and intellectual history of the field now called gender studies.
Read the full #openaccess dialogue here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

Our beloved journal turns 50 this year! We are celebrating throughout the year with multiple anniversary projects, beginning with our first special print issue #openaccess, Volume 46, Number 1: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55034
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The Featured Scholar for our most recent issue, 45.3, is Dr. Liz Schmermund, author of “The Keeper of the Flame: Dunya Mikhail’s Wartime Laments.” Read the full post on Augmented: frontiers.utah.edu/elizabeth-sc...

The deadline for the 2025 NWSA Women of Color Caucus-Frontiers Student Essay Award is this Sunday, June 1!! Find more information on the award on our website: frontiers.utah.edu/2025-nwsa-wo...

Our most recent issue, #45.3, closes with a quantitative study - something not often published in Frontiers. Check out the #openaccess article on perceptions of feminism in South Korean women by authors Hyun Ji Kim, Eunha Kim, and Ingrid Hogge here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

This month’s “Voices Relevant for Our Times” highlights Frontiers essays that center women and gender in their examinations of #migration, #borders, and #displacement, covering issues of activism, labor, policy, belonging, and identity. Check them out: frontiers.utah.edu/voices-relev...

We’ve got two new #bookreviews on Frontiers Augmented that showcase significant new feminist scholarship on topics of labor and class - "Pregnant at Work" and "Manufactured Freedom"! Check them out--> frontiers.utah.edu/pregnant-at-...
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On this #FeministFriday, we spotlight CiAuna Heard’s article from our newest issue - it examines how members of Jack & Jill of America socialize the heteropatriarchal norms of respectability as a way to discipline intersectional orientations toward a cohesive community: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...