The Journal of International Women’s Studies is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed feminist journal that provides a forum for scholars, activists, and students to explore the relationships among theories of gender and sexuality and various forms of organizing and critical practice.
Current Issue: Volume 26, Issue 3 (2024) Selected Papers from the 9th World Conference on Women’s Studies
Editors Introduction
Introduction: Selected Papers from the 9th World Conference on Women’s Studies, Bangkok, Thailand, 2023
Alicia Haynes, Asma Noureen, and Marlene Johnson
Articles
The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Interpersonal Relationships: A Cross-Sectional Study in Trinidad
Bernadette Marson
Dalit Feminist Literature from South India: New Models and Perspectives
Sujatha Moni and Miruna George
Forced Migration as a “State of Exception”: The Precarious Lives of Migrant Women of Jammu and Kashmir in Kulvir Gupta’s Embers the Beginning and Embers the End of Mirpur
Rishav Bali and Isha Malhotra
Re-envisioning Community-Engaged Healing for Black Women
Reanae McNeal, Marqua Harris, and Vanessa Oliphant
Moralistic Science: Socio-Cultural Norms about Sexuality in Indian Biology Education
Panchami Jose, Sugra Chunawala, and Deepa Chari
Epistemic Injustice against Khoi-Coloured Women from the Cape: Connected Encounters with the Matriarchal Lineages of Krotoa
Darlene Miller
“Everyone Here Is Smarter than Me”: Imposter Phenomenon among Indian Women Returning to Technology Careers after a Career Break
Swati Singh and Sita Vanka
Hashtag Counterpublics: #LifeinLeggings as Feminist Disruption to Mainstream Public Media Discourses
Alicia Haynes
Assessment of the Economic Empowerment of Women before and after Establishment of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
Agatha Itohan Oseghale, Abigail John Jirgi, Faith Dabaniyu Ibrahim, Abu Ogaji, Alaba Olanike Ojo, Ramatu Usman Bako, and Halima Sallawu
Professional Black South African Women Speak Out in Resistance to Patriarchy: Overcoming Barriers to Self Development
Padhma Moodley and Corné Meintjes
Trends in Family Planning Methods: An Intergenerational Study of the Lived Experiences of Tribal Women in Attappady, India
Asha Sankar V. and Moly Kuruvilla
Feminism in Practice: Learning from the Barefoot “Solar Mamas”
Neda Parvin Shaikh
Executive Editors
Kimberly Chabot Davis, Department of English, Bridgewater State University
Diana Fox, Department of Anthropology, Bridgewater State University (on leave until Sept. 2024)
Catherine Ndinda, Human Science Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
Priyanka Tripathi, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India
Book Review Editor
Medha Bhattacharyya, Bengal Institute of Technology, India
Film Review Editors
Mohosin Mandal, Department of English, Alipurduar Mahila Mahavidyalay, India
Avishek Deb, Department of English, Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management University (GITAM), Bangalore, India
Editorial Assistants
Emma Shanley, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA
Kimiko Clark, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA
Rosalie Hamilton, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA
Allison Marchand, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA
Special Issue Editors
Alicia Haynes, University of the West Indies, Barbados
Asma Noureen, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
Marlene Johnson, University of the West Indies, Barbados