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| Women's History Review | |
|---|---|
| Title | Women's History Review |
| Discipline | Women's history |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| History | 1992–present |
| Issn | 0961-2025 |
Women's History Review
Women's History Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal publishing research on women's history, gendered experiences, and historical meanings of femininity in a global context. It bridges scholarship on medieval, early modern, and modern periods while engaging with archives, biographies, and cultural artifacts. The journal serves scholars working on comparative history, transnational networks, and intersectional approaches.
Launched in 1992, the journal emerged amid institutional initiatives such as the rise of women's studies programs at University of Warwick, the institutionalization of women's history at Birkbeck, University of London, and international conferences like the International Federation for Research in Women's History gatherings. Founding contributors included scholars connected to projects at Newnham College, Cambridge, the Institute of Historical Research, and networks formed after symposia at Smith College and Radcliffe Institute. Early editorial meetings referenced archival work in collections at The National Archives (United Kingdom), the British Library, and regional repositories in Lancashire, Scotland, and Ireland.
The journal's remit covers biographies, family histories, labor and workplace studies, reproductive and health histories, colonial and imperial encounters, and cultural histories of gendered representation. Articles commonly situate case studies involving figures such as Florence Nightingale, Emmeline Pankhurst, Sojourner Truth, Simone de Beauvoir, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Harriet Tubman alongside examinations of institutions like Institut Pasteur collections or legal changes from statutes such as the Married Women's Property Act 1882. Comparative pieces link contexts in France, Japan, India, Brazil, South Africa, and Ottoman Empire archives, engaging debates associated with historians influenced by works from Gerda Lerner, E.P. Thompson, Natalie Zemon Davis, Michel Foucault, and Joan Scott.
Published by Taylor & Francis on a bimonthly schedule, the journal is ISSN-registered and available in print and electronic formats distributed through platforms servicing academic libraries such as those connected to JSTOR, Project MUSE, and institutional subscriptions held by universities like University of Oxford, Harvard University, University of Melbourne, and University of Cape Town. It is indexed in major bibliographic services including Scopus, Historical Abstracts, Web of Science, and subject-specific databases used by researchers at institutions such as Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Tokyo.
The editorial board comprises historians and interdisciplinary scholars affiliated with universities and research institutes including University of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh, King's College London, University of Toronto, and Australian National University. The journal operates a double-blind peer review process, soliciting referees drawn from specialist networks in fields linked to archives at Wellcome Collection and museums such as the Victoria and Albert Museum; peer reviewers have included experts whose work appears alongside monographs published by presses like Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Routledge.
Scholarly reception has noted the journal's role in shaping debates around gendered labor, feminist periodization, and transnational histories. Reviews in venues connected to societies such as the American Historical Association, the Royal Historical Society, and the Economic History Society cite articles from the journal in discussions of pedagogy and curriculum reform at departments including UCLA, University of Paris (Sorbonne), and McGill University. Citation analyses show the journal contributing to debates alongside landmark studies by authors associated with Routledge collections, conference panels at International Congress of Historical Sciences, and funded projects from bodies like the British Academy and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Special issues have focused on themes such as women and war, migration and diaspora, motherhood and reproduction, and archives and memory, bringing together contributors who work on case studies from World War I trenches, Spanish Civil War nurses, suffrage campaigns in New Zealand and United States, and gendered colonial encounters in Kenya and India. Notable articles have treated figures including Clara Zetkin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Zora Neale Hurston, Rosa Luxemburg, Ada Lovelace, and Queen Victoria within broader social and political contexts, and have curated archival discoveries from repositories like the Massachusetts Historical Society and the National Library of Scotland.
The journal is available in print, online PDF, and HTML formats through publisher platforms and institutional subscriptions at libraries such as Library of Congress, British Library, and university consortia including CERNLIB-linked collections. Access options include individual subscriptions, institutional access, and pay-per-view for single articles; many readers at research centers and special collections—such as those at Bodleian Libraries and New York Public Library—consult the journal via catalogues and interlibrary loan systems. Digital preservation initiatives involve partnerships with organizations like Portico and national archiving services.
Category:Academic journals