The ''Woman's Art Journal'' (''WAJ'') is a
feminist art
The feminist art movement refers to the efforts and accomplishments of feminists internationally to produce feminist art, art that reflects women's lives and experiences, as well as to change the foundation for the production and perception of co ...
history journal that focuses on
women in the visual arts. The journal also serves as a forum "for critical analysis of contemporary art issues as they relate to women."
Overview
The ''Woman's Art Journal'' is published twice annually, in May and November, by Old City Publishing, Inc.
Ute Tellini is the journal's book editor. The journal's editorial offices are located at
Rutgers University
Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...
.
History
Elsa Honig Fine first proposed a journal on women and the arts at a 1979 meeting of the
Women's Caucus for Art
The Women's Caucus for Art (WCA), founded in 1972, is a non-profit organization based in New York City, which supports women artists, art historians, students, educators, and museum professionals. The WCA holds exhibitions and conferences to promo ...
.
She founded ''Woman's Art Journal'' in 1980. Fine wrote that the original goals of the journal were "documenting women artists who were celebrated during their lifetimes but are now lost to art history, looking at the art of the past through a feminist lens, and reviewing the ever expanding number of books on women and issues related to women in all areas of the visual arts."
Fine announced in 2005 that the journal would cease publication. Due to support from the feminist community, the journal continued with
Joan Marter and
Margaret Barlow becoming co-editors in 2006.
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Feminist magazines published in the United States
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