Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Resources

This Association of College and Resource Libraries (ACRL)'s resources guide indexes common OA and OER sources within the field of Women and Gender Studies. The materials are categorized by source type and are freely available to the public.

Feminist Periodicals is "an open access repository of digitized contents pages of 150 academic journals and pop culture magazines in the fields of Feminism, Gender and Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies, and LGBTQIA+ studies. Since many international and grassroots titles are not indexed in standard sources, Feminist Periodicals is the best key to their contents. Feminist Periodicals is made available through the Office of the Gender and Women's Studies Librarian at the University of Wisconsin."

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"The Agenda journal facilitates dialogue and debates between academic gender researchers, activists within the women's movement and other segments of civil society."

"Feminist Review is a peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal setting new agendas for feminism. Feminist Review invites critical reflection on the relationship between materiality and representation, theory and practice, subjectivity and communities, contemporary and historical formations. The Feminist Review Collective is committed to exploring gender in its multiple forms and interrelationships."

"Articles that focus on women's experience and on gender as a category of analysis of a critical, scholarly, speculative and political nature, poetry and art, reports from the women's movement and strategies for change."

"Feminist Theory is genuinely interdisciplinary and reflects the diversity of feminism, incorporating perspectives from across the broad spectrum of the humanities and social sciences and the full range of feminist political and theoretical stances. This is a fascinating journal that applies feminist theory to the cultural and social experiences of women."

"The Gay & Lesbian Review / Worldwide (The G&LR) is a bimonthly magazine of history, culture, and politics targeting an educated readership of LGBT people, and their allies that publishes essays in a wide range of disciplines as well as reviews of books, movies, and plays."

The Gender Forum is "an online, peer reviewed academic journal dedicated to the discussion of gender issues" across fields and disciplines. It is open access.

"Peer reviewed articles on basic and applied research on the relationships between men and women; on similiarities & differences in socialization, personality, & behavior; & on the changing roles of women around the world."

"The Journal of International Women’s Studies is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed feminist journal that provides a forum for scholars, activists, and students to explore the relationships among theories of gender and sexuality and various forms of organizing and critical practice."

The Journal of Men’s Studies publishes the best research—both theoretical and empirical—in the emergent men’s studies field, recognizing the varied influences of class, culture, race, and sexual orientation on defining men’s experiences. The journal’s cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural character disseminates material by men’s studies scholars from various perspectives (political, social, cultural, and historical) as well as various disciplines (anthropology, sociology, history, psychology, literature, theology).

"Men and Masculinities publishes peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary scholarship on the topic of masculinities. We welcome empirical, theoretical, and literature review submissions that employ diverse methodologies and draw from a range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, feminist studies, psychology, media and communication studies, history, criminology, literature, racial and ethnic studies, cultural studies, and others."

"Reviews the latest print, video, and digital resources for research and teaching in gender and women’s studies."

S&F Online is "a triannual, multimedia, peer-reviewed, online-only journal of feminist theories and women’s movements established in 2003. The journal provides public access to the Barnard Center for Research on Women’s most innovative programming by providing written transcripts, audio and visual recordings, and links to relevant intellectual and social action networks. The journal builds on these programs by publishing related scholarship and other applicable resources."

"thirdspace is a peer-reviewed journal, offering work in English and French, that aims to present the best in scholarship on feminist theory and culture."

Whatever is an "international, double-blind peer-reviewed, online, open-access" journal that publishes articles related to Queer Studies across fields and disciplines.

The Women's Studies International Forum is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes "feminist research in the multidisciplinary, international area of women's studies and in feminist research in other disciplines. The policy of the journal is to establish a feminist forum for discussion and debate."

WSQ is a peer-reviewed, "interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of emerging perspectives on women, gender, and sexuality. Its thematic issues focus on such topics as Activisms, The Global and the Intimate, The Sexual Body, Trans-, Technologies, and Mother, combining psychoanalytic, legal, queer, cultural, technological, and historical work to present the most exciting new scholarship on ideas that engage popular and academic readers alike."