Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies

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...

It's been 5 years since the start of the #COVID-19 pandemic, so we are highlighting artist Abdi Osman's "Modern Primitive," a series of colorful portraits that capture life during this time, including “Slaying for the Lord" featured here. Check out the rest of the art:" muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

We’ve got a new issue out & it’s our first completely #openacess issue! Frontiers #45.3 includes 8 research articles that exemplify interdisciplinary feminist methodologies to uncover issues of memory, identity, intersectionality, & resistance: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53520 @univnebpress.bsky.social