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), write helpdesk@yorku.ca
for some simple instructions about configuring your computer
to provide you access to the on line journals.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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