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''Australian Feminist Studies'' is a quarterly
peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...
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covering
feminist studies Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppressi ...
. It was established in 1985 and is published by
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. The founding
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was Susan Magarey (
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). She was succeeded as editor by Mary Spongberg (
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). The current editors are Lisa Adkins
University of Sydney
and
Maryanne Dever Maryanne Dever is an Australian academic whose research focuses on feminist literary and archival studies. Education Dever completed a BA (Hons) at the University of Queensland in 1984, an MA (Hons), followed by a PhD, at the University of ...

The Australian National University
. The journal was formerly published twice a year.


Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''
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'', the journal has a 2015
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of 0.500, ranking it 29th out of 40 journals in the category "Women's Studies".


See also

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Feminist theory Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. It examines women's and men's social roles, experiences, interests, chores, and feminist ...
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Gender studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field ...
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List of women's studies journals This is a list of peer-reviewed, academic journals in field of women's studies. ''Note'': there are many important academic magazines that are not true peer-reviewed journals. They are not listed here. A *'' Affilia'' * ''Asian Journal of ...
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Women's liberation movement The women's liberation movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism that emerged in the late 1960s and continued into the 1980s primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, which effected great ...
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Women's studies Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppress ...


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* English-language journals Feminist journals Publications established in 1985 Quarterly journals Routledge academic journals Women's studies journals Biannual journals 1985 establishments in Australia {{Womens-journal-stub