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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 13h
With the fall semester in full swing, we want to direct our many readers who are also educators to a variety of feminist pedagogy resources from our 2025 digital special issue on “Feminist Youth Engagement." Access these & more on our website: frontierswsjournal.org/issue/46-2a-...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 03/09/2026
BREAKING: Gloria Steinem, feminist trailblazer and award-winning journalist, dies at 92.
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Gloria Steinem, fierce feminist trailblazer, dies
A pioneering activist and journalist, Steinem was one of the women’s liberation movement’s most outspoken advocates.
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The cover artist of our most recent issue, 46.3, is Zixuan Liao, PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brock University. In our first “Meet the Artist” video, Zixuan discusses her cover image, “26-Year-Old." Check it out! 👇
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
For this #feministfriday, we highlight an iconic article from Frontiers' history: Berenice Fisher’s “‘Over the Long Haul:’ Burnout and Hope in a Conservative Era,” a prescient article on the topic of feminist burnout in the 1980s that still rings true today: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
In celebration of the 2026 World Cup kicking off this week, we’d like to highlight a 2022 Frontiers article, “The Political Economy of Puto: Soccer, Masculinities, and Neoliberal Transformation in Mexico,” cowritten by one of our current co-editors, Dr. Sarita Gaytán: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The submission deadline for our special issue "Conservative Feminisms in the Americas" is just a few days away! Check out the call here & apply before May 31: frontierswsjournal.org/call-for-pap...
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Conservative Feminisms in the Americas - Frontiers
This special issue of Frontiers investigates how feminism, even as a discourse of resistance, participates in hegemonic projects. We invite papers that examine the connections…
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Looking for some good reads for #AsianAmerican and #PacificIslander Heritage Month? We’ve curated a brief list of Frontiers work covering this subject from gender & feminist studies perspectives 👇 As always, this list is not comprehensive – check out our full archives on our website for more!
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 12/05/2026
New Ask a Feminist! Editors from @feministstudies.bsky.social, @frontiersjournal.bsky.social, Feminist Formations, and Signs explore how Trump 2.0's attacks on WGS are affecting the production of feminist scholarship. Read or listen for free!
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Feminist Scholarly Writing under Authoritarianism, a Conversation with Debjani Chakravarty, Patti Duncan, and Jennifer C. Nash
Editors of the interdisciplinary journals Feminist Studies, Feminist Formations, Frontiers, and Signs discuss the second Trump administration’s attacks on women’s and gender studies.
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This week we spotlight 2 articles from our most recent issue 46.3 that traverse topics of oppression, misogyny & transmisogyny, cultural & institutional violence, as well as feminist resistance, solidarity, justice, & world-building. Find both #openaccess articles here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56120
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Submissions are now open for the 2026 NWSA Women of Color Caucus – Frontiers Student Essay Award! 1 annual $500 award is available for a woman of color who is a current graduate student and member of NWSA and the Women of Color Caucus: frontierswsjournal.org/call-for-pap...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
During this current geopolitical moment, we continue to promote Frontiers works focusing on the lives of Arab women, such as from our most recent issue: “Centering Women in Contemporary Gulf Arab Fiction,” by Szidonia Haragos, Ph.D. Check out the open access article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
For our newest issue, #46.3, we are featuring author Jordan Lea Johnson, author of “Angelina in the Archives: Tracing Heteropatriarchy and Settler Colonialism in Local Histories of the Pineywoods.” Check out her Frontiers Augmented post--> frontiers.utah.edu/jordan-lea-j...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This week, during #BlackHistoryMonth, we want to point our readers to two new book reviews on Frontiers Augmented that discuss recent publications by Black authors that advance scholarship on Black women and feminisms: frontiers.utah.edu/black-specul... and frontiers.utah.edu/black-gurl-r...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
#CallforPapers! Frontiers is seeking submissions for a new special issue titled “What Are Feminist Quantitative Methods? New Frontiers in the Field.” Read the full call & submission information: frontiers.utah.edu/what-are-fem...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Frontiers Volume 46, Number 3 is now published in print and online! This general issue features intersectional feminist literary and historical analyses, studies of activism and academic labor, and art. Explore the full open access issue here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56120 #feministpublishing
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Our 50th anniversary digital special issue on the future of feminism opens with two zines about feminist pedagogy, activism, and youth engagement: "Our Seeds of Change" and “When Did You First Learn About Feminism." Check them out on our site: frontiers.utah.edu/feminist-you...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
We’re kicking off the new year with a new #callforpapers! “Conservative Feminisms in the Americas” is an upcoming special issue of Frontiers that investigates how feminism, even as a discourse of resistance, participates in hegemonic projects. Read the full call: frontiers.utah.edu/conservative...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
We close out 2025 with the publication of our final Frontiers 50th anniversary project: a digital special issue, “Feminist Youth Engagement: The Future of the Feminist Movement.” You can access the full issue on our site: frontiers.utah.edu/feminist-you... #frontiersat50
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The Featured Author for our most recent issue, 46.2, is Dr. Nicolyn Woodcock, author of “The Intimate Labors of World War II: Sex, Race, and Belonging in Lisa See's China Dolls.“ Check out her Augmented post here: frontiers.utah.edu/nicolyn-wood...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Congratulations to Wei Sic Nic Yiu for winning the 2025 NWSA Women of Color Caucus - Frontiers Student Essay Award with their essay, "Work Smart, Not Hard: Chinese Women Massage Workers’ Lessons of Quietly Messing with Work"! Read more about their essay here: www.nwsa.org/annual-confe...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
✨NWSA 2025!!✨We had a great conference recognizing the scholarship of our editors & celebrating the journal's 50th anniversary! #frontiersat50
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University of Nebraska Press @univnebpress.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Today's UP Week blog tour asks "WHEN does your press #TeamUP?" On the blog, we're observing the 60th and 50th anniversaries of WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE and @frontiersjournal.bsky.social, respectively!
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UP Week: WHEN does your press #TeamUp?
Happy University Press Week! Help us celebrate university presses November 10-14. Since 2012, members of the Association of University Presses have participated in an annual celebration of University Presses. This year's theme for UP Week is "Team UP," to celebrate the ways that university presses and their authors Team UP with a vast network of reviewers, booksellers, freelancers, translators, librarians, teachers, and students to advance knowledge and understanding.
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Join us in celebrating the 50th anniversary of Frontiers at the National Women Studies Association Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico! We will host an informal roundtable & reception serving desserts (GF & vegan options), non-alcoholic drinks, and a cash bar. Info below 👇
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
50 years of Frontiers means 50 years of cover art. We commemorate Frontiers’ many amazing visual artists who have contributed their work to our issues with 5 special posters featuring different covers across each decade. These designs were created by Amy Lage at @univnebpress.bsky.social:
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Following “Indigenous People’s Day” in the U.S. this past Monday, we are releasing another “Voices Relevant for Our Times” that recognizes the work on and by Indigenous women over Frontiers’ 50 years: frontiers.utah.edu/voices-relev...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Our second anniversary issue includes an essay written by two members of the current editorial collective, Debjani Chakravarty and Ana Antunes, that focuses on the state of academic feminist publishing in the present. Read the full open access article here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Our second special “Frontiers at 50” issue is out now! This issue continues our 50th anniversary theme of exploring the history, present day, and emerging paths of Frontiers and #feministpublishing. Check out the full open access issue online: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55545 #frontiersat50
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University of Nebraska Press @univnebpress.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Turns Fifty! On the blog, the @frontiersjournal.bsky.social Editorial Collective celebrates the 50th anniversary of its inaugural issue.
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Turns Fifty!
The Frontiers Editorial Collective is composed of Sarita Gaytán, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Utah; Debjani Chakravarty, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Utah; Kimberly M. Jew, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Theatre and Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah; Wanda Pillow, Ph.D., Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Utah; Silvia Patricia Solís, Ph.D., Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Environmental Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Ana Antunes, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Utah; and Elise Homan, Ph.D., Managing Editor for…
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The featured scholars of our first anniversary issue, 46.1, are Trung M. Nguyen & Patti Duncan (Oregon State University), authors of ““Hot Commodities, Cheap Labor Revisited:” Old Frontiers with New Friends, Epistemology of Two Asian Feminists Writing:” frontiers.utah.edu/trung-m-nguy...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
As Labor Day weekend begins, we are focusing this next “Voices Relevant for Our Times” on the topic of “women and work.” Check out the list of past Frontiers articles exploring gender & labor on our site: frontiers.utah.edu/voices-relev...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
In their contribution to our first anniversary issue, Boisseau and Rellihan reflect on the status, achievements, and aspirations of women’s/gender/ sexuality/feminist studies amidst authoritarian and illiberal backlash in the United States and the world beyond: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Check out our #openaccess reprint (with a new intro) of Suzanne Lacy's 1977 speech about her feminist art project "Three Weeks in May:" muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
As part of the journal’s 50th anniversary, the Frontiers editorial collective at the University of Utah produced a “Frontiers at 50 Oral History Project" with interviews w/ former editorial members -- check it out in our special online issue: frontiers.utah.edu/frontiers-at...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Our first 50th anniversary special issue opens with a wide-ranging conversation between Clare Hemmings & Robyn Wiegman about the institutional and intellectual history of the field now called gender studies. Read the full #openaccess dialogue here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Our beloved journal turns 50 this year! We are celebrating throughout the year with multiple anniversary projects, beginning with our first special print issue #openaccess, Volume 46, Number 1: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55034 @univnebpress.bsky.social
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The Featured Scholar for our most recent issue, 45.3, is Dr. Liz Schmermund, author of “The Keeper of the Flame: Dunya Mikhail’s Wartime Laments.” Read the full post on Augmented: frontiers.utah.edu/elizabeth-sc...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The deadline for the 2025 NWSA Women of Color Caucus-Frontiers Student Essay Award is this Sunday, June 1!! Find more information on the award on our website: frontiers.utah.edu/2025-nwsa-wo...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Our most recent issue, #45.3, closes with a quantitative study - something not often published in Frontiers. Check out the #openaccess article on perceptions of feminism in South Korean women by authors Hyun Ji Kim, Eunha Kim, and Ingrid Hogge here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This month’s “Voices Relevant for Our Times” highlights Frontiers essays that center women and gender in their examinations of #migration, #borders, and #displacement, covering issues of activism, labor, policy, belonging, and identity. Check them out: frontiers.utah.edu/voices-relev...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We’ve got two new #bookreviews on Frontiers Augmented that showcase significant new feminist scholarship on topics of labor and class - "Pregnant at Work" and "Manufactured Freedom"! Check them out--> frontiers.utah.edu/pregnant-at-... frontiers.utah.edu/manufacturin...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
On this #FeministFriday, we spotlight CiAuna Heard’s article from our newest issue - it examines how members of Jack & Jill of America socialize the heteropatriarchal norms of respectability as a way to discipline intersectional orientations toward a cohesive community: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It's been 5 years since the start of the #COVID-19 pandemic, so we are highlighting artist Abdi Osman's "Modern Primitive," a series of colorful portraits that capture life during this time, including “Slaying for the Lord" featured here. Check out the rest of the art:" muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies @frontiersjournal.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We’ve got a new issue out & it’s our first completely #openacess issue! Frontiers #45.3 includes 8 research articles that exemplify interdisciplinary feminist methodologies to uncover issues of memory, identity, intersectionality, & resistance: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53520 @univnebpress.bsky.social
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