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Time was when the women of the world didn't get much space in history books, except perhaps such notorious ones as Cleopatra, Lucretia Borgia and Mata Hari. Clara Barton earned a little space in history books for founding the Red Cross. Female authors during the Regency period in England used to publish anonymously.
Not so today, thank goodness. And the Indiana University Press keeps the spotlight on what women are doing, contributing and thinking through five -- count them -- five journals devoted to women's issues.
"Each of the journals is one of a kind, and each answers a real need in the scholarly world," said Kate Caras, journals manager at the IU Press. Their affiliation with the press also indicate the strong list of offerings in women's studies.
Caras said that with the exception of differences, which was launched at IU, all of the others came to the IU Press from elsewhere.
The Journal of Women's History, founded in 1989, is described on the Web as the "first journal devoted exclusively to the international field of women's history" and notes that "the journal does not attempt to impose one feminist 'line' but recognizes the multiple perspectives captured by the term 'feminism.'"
The National Women's Studies Association Journal publishes up-to-date "interdisciplinary, multi-cultural feminist scholarship linking feminist theory with teaching and activism." It contains essays on feminist scholarship and book reviews, teaching materials and films.
Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies makes a critical study of how women are represented in film, popular culture, the media and the arts. It has been praised for its "innovative design and the originality of its contributions to feminist criticism."
How concepts and categories of difference -- notably but not exclusively gender -- operate within culture is the focus of differences. It is designed to be at the intersection of "the two most exciting fields of cultural inquiry," cultural studies and feminism. differences is affiliated with the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research at Brown University.
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy has its roots in the Society for Women in Philosophy. Hypatia, a leader of the Neoplatonic School in Alexandria until her death in 415 A.D., was famous as "an eloquent and inspiring teacher."
For selections from the
IU Press women's studies collection:
http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/subj/womstud.html
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