Feminist Formations is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 established in 1988 as the NWSA Journal (journal of the National Women's Studies Association); the name was changed beginning with the Spring 2010 issue. It publishes interdisciplinary

Interdisciplinarity

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 and multicultural feminist scholarship in women's

Women's studies

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, gender, and sexuality studies

Gender studies

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. In addition to its essays focusing on feminist

Feminism

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 scholarship and its reviews of books, the journal regularly publishes special issues focused on topics especially important in the field of women’s studies. The journal is published three times per year by the Johns Hopkins University Press

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External links

• Feminist Formations at Project MUSE
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  Project MUSE is an online database of current and back issues of peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals. It was founded in 1993 by Todd Kelley and Susan Lewis and is a project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. It had support from the Mellon...