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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies
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Published by Univ. of Nebraska Press - Now Open Access!
Based at the University of Utah
https://frontiers.utah.edu
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...
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
✨NWSA 2025!!✨We had a great conference recognizing the scholarship of our editors & celebrating the journal's 50th anniversary! #frontiersat50
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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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!
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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November 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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 👇
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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:
October 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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...
October 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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...
October 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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
September 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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...
September 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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...
August 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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...
August 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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...
July 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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...
July 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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...
June 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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
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June 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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...
June 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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...
May 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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...
April 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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...
April 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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-...
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April 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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...
April 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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...
March 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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
March 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM