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The Journal of Feminist Scholarship is a twice-yearly, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published Klobucka, Erin K. Krafft, Jeannette E. Turcotte.

The Journal of Feminist Scholarship is edited at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth by Anupama Arora (Executive Editor), Anna M. Riley (Executive Editor), and Heather M. It is published through the generous support from the College of Arts and Sciences at UMass Dartmouth and the University of Rhode Island. The editors conceive the mission of the JFS as an exploration of the state of feminis

t scholarship at the turn of the new century, and we see this endeavor as part of a larger question of where feminism itself is heading. We wish to encourage a discussion of feminist thought for the twenty-first century. What are its directions today, and what relationship does it sustain with the foundations laid down by feminist inquiry and action in earlier centuries? We aim to publish work that explores the multiple theoretical paradigms and political agendas of contemporary and historical feminist scholarship and the potential intersections and tensions between these paradigms and agendas. We are especially interested in examining productive controversies and divergences between transnational contexts of feminism. We also welcome submissions that focus on feminist pedagogies and activism. Publishing the journal online means that we are able to offer open access to its contents to feminist scholars anywhere in the world where there is an internet connection. It also has an immediacy that allows us to publish articles on topics that are in the here and now and to significantly shorten the time lag from submission to publication for our contributors.

06/17/2025

The Spring 2025 issue of The Journal of Feminist Scholarship is here! This issue brings together powerful work on feminist film studies, digital humanities, mentoring, and feminist research in and beyond the classroom.

Featuring articles by Aarti Wani, Jessica Frazier, Tamar Carroll, Shweta Sachdeva Jha, Leandra Zarnow, Julie Shayne, Tessa Denton, Denise Hattwig, David Powers Corwin, Siri Lalukota, Angelica Lovelace, and Lindsay Lowry.

Read the full issue online at digitalcommons.uri.edu/jfs

04/25/2025

In their piece, Letizia Guglielmo & Esther Skelley Jordan turn their focus on the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic and racial reckoning of 2020-2021 led many faculty in higher education in the United States to see the profession and their place in it in a new light. In their work as faculty, faculty coaches, and facilitators of mutual mentoring groups, Guglielmo and Jordan observed a tipping point in which a new consciousness emerged, one which rejected traditional notions of academic service at the expense of self.

We are an open access journal, so if this interests you, please download your copy today and explore our archives of past issues.

04/22/2025

This article considers what a q***r approach might offer in addressing some of the challenges of higher education in the contemporary neoliberal landscape.

04/18/2025

This article makes an argument to move away from hierarchical models of education, and does so by looking at the theories of bell hooks, Jacques Rancière, and Derrick Jensen in order to begin investigating alternatives to current education systems.

04/15/2025

On Feb 28, we spotlighted one of our most downloaded articles on decolonizing higher education. With Lena Wånggren’s article today, we return to highlighting other articles from our archive that focus on feminism, pedagogy, higher education, and social justice. In “Precarious Responsibility,” Wånggren focuses on the precarious pedagogies of casualized feminist scholars in a marketized university.

Dr Lena Wånggren works as Teaching Fellow (Centre for Open Learning) and Tutor (Department of English Literature), teaching English and Scottish Literature, gender studies, and feminist writing. Her work is interdisciplinary, concerning gender, intersectionality and social justice in nineteenth-century and contemporary literature and culture. She has taught in UK universities for 15 years, with specific expertise in feminist, decolonial and antiracist pedagogies.

04/11/2025

Jane Bolin, born this day in 1908, was the first Black woman to accomplish many feats in the world of law in the United States. Bolin was the first Black woman to graduate from Yale Law school, the first to join the NYC bar association, the first to join the NYC law department, and the first to serve as a judge in the United States. One of eleven children and the child of another trailblazing lawyer, her ambition and tenacity opened the door to her future and left it open behind her for those after. She was, and remains, an inspiration to this day. Happy Birthday Jane Bolin!

04/04/2025

Women’s History Month might have come to a close, but the struggle for and commitment to a feminist and just future continues. Today we highlight an article from our archives that discusses the important and difficult work of coalition building.

In “Towards a New Theory of Feminist Coalition,” Holly Jeanine Boux (Georgetown University) writes that “Coalition work may not be easy, but in order to struggle against oppression, an intentional engagement with difference and a responsibility to not perpetuate the oppression of others are essential.”

Check out Boux’s article on our site. We’re open access!

04/01/2025

Happy Transgender Visibility Day!

Created by trans advocate Rachel Crandall, today we celebrate and uplift trans voices. We've all benefited from their tireless activism and advocacy. Now more than ever we must support our trans communities and fight for their right to exist and their protections.

TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. Always have been, always will be.

03/25/2025

Happy Birthday to Toni Cade Bambara, an important writer, civil rights activist, editor, and filmmaker who believed writing to be an important and revolutionary tool in the fight for social justice. Bambara was born in NYC on March 25, 1939. Her literary works include the novel, "The Salt Eaters” (1980); and short-story collections, "Gorilla, My Love" (1972), and "The Sea Birds Are Still Alive" (1977). She also collaborated on several TV documentaries. She passed away in 1995.

We spotlight an article from our archive that discusses, among other works, one of Bambara's best-known and frequently anthologized 1972 short story "The Lesson." In this article titled "Pedagogies of the “Irresistible”: Imaginative Elsewheres of Black Feminist Learning," Mecca Jamilah Sullivan writes that, as a Black feminist writer/teacher, Bambara insists on "a crucial nexus of joy, pleasure, and creative expression in radical feminist pedagogy." In her article, Sullivan also offers commentary on Bambara's famous foreword to the first edition of Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa’s path-breaking anthology, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Dr. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is a writer and professor of English at Georgetown University.

Check out Sullivan's article, we're open access!

03/21/2025

It’s been five years since COVID overtook our lives, and Farrah M. Cato 2022 article, "Covid as Glitch" is as important as ever. Cato argues the pandemic was a “tipping point by which craft can and does function as resistive and transformative feminist work with the potential to 'glitch' oppressive systems”. What is appropriate work, play, rest? In what ways is craft an embodiment of feminist resistance? What is "Glitch Feminism"? Check out the journal today and find out! This article is in issue 21. We’re open access!

Farrah M. Cato teaches English at The University of Central Florida. Her research and teaching interests include Women’s Speculative Fictions, Magical Realism, and Women’s Material Cultures as Technologies of Resistance.

03/07/2025

Today we are spotlighting an article from 2018. In honor of Women's History Month, let's think about feminism's role in our lives today. Claire Carter of The University of Regina shines a light on the debate of feminism's ongoing role in young women lives. By utilizing Michel Foucault's principle of care of the self, Carter analyzes the interpretation of feminism in the lived experience and in dominant discourse.

Claire writes: "The complexities of negotiating diverse social identities, as well as women's desire for a happier life and greater self-worth, provide some important nuances to contemporary debates about feminism."

03/05/2025

To start off Women's History Month right, we'd like to remind you of how far we've come even as we see the challenges in front of us. 112 years ago, the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) organized a march down Pennsylvania avenue the day before President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. While this march was one of many demonstrations put on by women fighting for their rights, in the current climate it's comforting to know that women have fought and won for their rights time and time again. And we will continue to do so!

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The Journal of Feminist Scholarship is currently published through a collaborative feminist relationship between the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and the University of Rhode Island. Anupama Arora, Anna M. Klobucka, Erin K. Krafft, Jeannette E. Riley, and Heather M. Turcotte (Executive Editor) are its current editors.

JFS began at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth by Catherine Villanueva Gardner, Anna M. Klobucka, and Jeannette E. Riley through the Department of Women's and Gender Studies and the generous support from the College of Arts and Sciences at UMass Dartmouth. The founding editors conceived the mission of JFS as an exploration of the state of feminist scholarship at the turn of the new century, and we see this endeavor as part of a larger question of where feminism itself is heading.

We continue to encourage a discussion of feminist thought for the twenty-first century. What are its directions today, and what relationship does it sustain with the foundations laid down by feminist inquiry and action in earlier centuries? We aim to publish work that explores the multiple theoretical paradigms and political agendas of contemporary and historical feminist scholarship and the potential intersections and tensions between these paradigms and agendas. We are especially interested in examining productive controversies and divergences between transnational contexts of feminism. We also welcome submissions that focus on feminist pedagogies and activism. We are a “double-anonymous” peer reviewed journal and publishing online means that we are able to offer open access to its contents to feminist scholars anywhere in the world where there is an internet connection. It also has an immediacy that allows us to publish articles on topics that are in the here and now and to significantly shorten the time lag from submission to publication for our contributors.