ON LINE JOURNALS
This section contains links to academic journals that
are free to access on-line. Note that many journals are also
available on line when you search the York University Library
site ( www.library.yorku.ca
). To access the on line versions,
you need to search from a yorku.ca address. If you are
using another server (like Rogers or Sympatico), visit http://www.library.yorku.ca/Home/eResources/RemoteAccess.htm
for remote access instructions.
JSTOR (www.jstor.org)
allows access to hundreds of back issues of journals
online for those working from yorku.ca account. You can search
for articles in some journals as far back as 1927..
FindArticles.com (www.findarticles.com)
is a vast archive of published articles that you can search
for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating
back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals. You
will find articles on a range of topics, including business,
health, society, entertainment, sports and more. Each of the
hundreds of thousands of articles in FindArticles can be read
in its entirety and printed at no cost.
Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies
Resources (www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/fcmain.htm)
contains news of the latest print and audiovisual
resources for research and teaching in women's studies. Recent
book reviews have treated such subjects as African American
women writers, lesbians in popular culture, and globalization.
There are guides to new bibliographies and reference works,
film and video critiques, computer updates, and news of out-of-the-way
materials -- pamphlets, reports, rare book dealers' catalogs,
microforms, and more. Thoughtful articles by experts explore
women's publishing, Internet resources, library organization,
archives, and other tools for feminist scholarship. New periodicals
and special issues of journals in other disciplines are announced
in each issue. This site is a bit tricky to navigate, but
persist to find some of the best bibliographical collections
around.
The Women's Studies Librarian at the University of Wisconsin
has compiled a really interesting and eclectic list of women-focused
magazines and newsletters available online (www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/mags.htm)
. There are lots of links, for example, to US based
print magazines like Bitch and Feminist Response
to Pop Culture as well as feminist academic journals
being published in New Zealand and Australia .
INDIVIDUAL JOURNALS
Feminista! (www.feminista.com
) is a electronic feminist journal. Each month
they publish feminist essays, editorials, fiction, poetry,
interviews, and book and movie reviews. If you want to browse
articles, their archives and current issues are easy to search.
Gender Policy Review (www.genderpolicy.org)
is a monthly magazine geared toward policy professionals
and individuals interested in gender and international, development
and domestic politics. The magazine seeks to provide a forum
for discussions and news on current laws and policies that
affect gender power relations as well as the position of women
in their societies and globally. Not all articles are available
but you can browse a number of them on-line.
The International Journal of Transgenderism (www.symposion.com/ijt/default.htm)
explores the study of transgenderism as a rapidly
expanding field of research that is both disciplinary and
interdisciplinary including intercultural perspectives, psychological
and biomedical studies of gender identity, and anthropological,
socio-cultural and historical studies. Articles are easy to
search although some may only have abstracts and not the full
text.
N. Paradoxa (web.ukonline.co.uk/members/n.paradoxa/index.htm)
is an international feminist art journal exploring
the paradoxes of feminism and the art world today. On this
site you will be able to access most of the articles published
in recent years. Additionally, they have historical information,
statistics and organizations about women and art 'globally'
but most of the links apply to the western art world.
Thirdspace (www.thirdspace.ca)
is a peer-reviewed journal for emerging feminist
scholars. Not as serious as it sounds. They have a wide range
of articles from analyses of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Turbo
Chicks! They support new scholars in women’s studies.This
is a really easy site to search.
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