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| Journal of Women's History | |
|---|---|
| Title | Journal of Women's History |
| Discipline | Women's history |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Joan W. Scott |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Country | United States |
| History | 1989–present |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Issn | 1042-7961 |
Journal of Women's History The Journal of Women's History is a peer-reviewed academic journal publishing historical scholarship on women, gender, and sexuality with comparative, transnational, and intersectional approaches. Founded in 1989, the journal connects research on figures and events such as Sojourner Truth, Emmeline Pankhurst, Simone de Beauvoir, Rosa Luxemburg, Anna Julia Cooper with studies of movements like Suffrage movement, Second-wave feminism, Combahee River Collective, Women's Liberation Movement, and institutions such as Smith College, Radcliffe College, Hull House, Wellesley College.
The journal was established amid debates involving scholars from institutions including Barnard College, University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, Columbia University, and University of Michigan and intellectual currents shaped by works like The Second Sex, The Feminine Mystique, Gender Trouble, Ain't I a Woman? and policy moments such as the United Nations Decade for Women and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Founders and early contributors included historians linked to programs at Rutgers University, New York University, Harvard University, University of Oxford, and University of Cambridge who worked on topics spanning the French Revolution, American Civil War, Russian Revolution, Mexican Revolution, and Indian Independence Movement as they affected women.
The journal emphasizes interdisciplinary work connecting biographies of figures like Harriet Tubman, Florence Nightingale, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Angela Davis, Betty Friedan and studies of movements such as Temperance movement, Black Panther Party, Civil Rights Movement, Anti-Apartheid Movement, Labor movement. Geographic breadth includes scholarship on regions and polities such as United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, China, India, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa and comparative studies referencing events like World War I, World War II, Cold War, Great Depression, Partition of India while engaging archival sources from repositories such as the British Library, Library of Congress, National Archives (United Kingdom), National Archives and Records Administration, Bibliothèque nationale de France.
The editorial board has historically included scholars affiliated with Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, Yale University, Princeton University, University of California, Los Angeles, and University of Pennsylvania. The journal employs double-blind peer review with external referees drawn from specialists on subjects like Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Queen Victoria, Indira Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt and methodologies referencing archival studies, oral history collections linked to places such as Greenwich Village, Hiroshima, Cape Town, and holdings in institutions such as Schlesinger Library, Bodleian Library, Peabody Museum.
Published quarterly by Johns Hopkins University Press, the journal circulates to subscribers at universities including Columbia University, University of Toronto, McGill University, Australian National University, and libraries such as the New York Public Library and the British Library. Special issues have been distributed in collaboration with conferences at organizations like the American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, International Federation for Research in Women's History, and centers such as the Schlesinger Library, Bunting Institute, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
The journal is indexed in bibliographic services and citation databases used by scholars working on figures like Mary Wollstonecraft, Jeannette Rankin, Sojourner Truth and events like Suffrage movement, Seneca Falls Convention, and is cited alongside journals such as Signs (journal), Gender & History, Feminist Studies, American Historical Review, Past & Present. Its impact is measured through citation metrics used in evaluations at departments including History Department, Columbia University, History Department, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics.
Notable articles have focused on biographies and case studies of subjects like Ada Lovelace, Marie Curie, Hypatia, Ann Frank, Zora Neale Hurston, and thematic issues on topics such as wartime gendered labor in World War II, reproductive politics tied to legislation such as Roe v. Wade and transnational feminist activism referencing conferences like the World Conference on Women. Special issues have addressed intersections with race and class featuring work on the Combahee River Collective, Black feminism, Chicana feminism, Indigenous women's movements and global perspectives including analyses of colonial encounters such as Scramble for Africa, Spanish colonization of the Americas, British Raj.
The journal has been influential for historians working on figures like Ida B. Wells, Wangari Maathai, Nellie Bly, Huda Sha'arawi and has shaped curricula in departments at Barnard College, Vassar College, Mount Holyoke College, Bryn Mawr College, and graduate training at University of Michigan, Brown University. It is cited in monographs on topics like gender and warfare, biographies of leaders including Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, Benazir Bhutto, and studies of social movements such as Suffrage movement, Women's March (2017), and legal histories involving cases like Griswold v. Connecticut.
Category:Women's history journals