Green River LibGuides: HUMAN 160 Introduction to Gender Studies (Sims): Find Scholarly Articles

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Journals by title

Here's a list of some of the library's Gender Studies journals. Search a title in the Journal Titles list to find out where/how to access it:

Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
"Differences highlights theoretical debates across the disciplines that address the ways concepts and categories of difference—notably but not exclusively gender—operate within culture."
Feminist Review
"Feminist Review sustains its unique role as an interdisciplinary, agenda-setting publication. Situated outside traditional disciplinary boundaries Feminist Review insists on the theoretical and strategic centrality of gender in all its complexity."
Feminist Studies
Contains "feature articles of feminist analysis on a variety of topics."
Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies
"Publishes feature articles in all areas of women’s studies, especially those that show the diversity of women in race, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation."
Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism
" Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, a feminist, interdisciplinary journal whose goal is to provide a forum for the finest scholarship and creative work by and about women of color in U.S. and international contexts."
Ms.
Ms. magazine "Features articles on a wide variety of women’s issues, U.S. and international news items, sections on health and work life, and opinion pieces." It is not a scholarly journal.
Psychology of Women Quarterly
"Psychology of Women Quarterly (PWQ) is a feminist journal that publishes primarily qualitative and quantitative research...related to the psychology of women and gender. Topics include career choice and training; management and performance variables; education; lifespan role development and change; physical and mental health and well-being; physical, sexual, and psychological abuse.
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
"Publishes feature articles about women in anthropology, art, economics, history, literature, sociology and the sciences. Also includes book and film reviews and some poetry and fiction."

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