About the Journal
Canadian Woman Studies is a feminist quarterly which was founded with the goal of making current writing and research on a wide variety of feminist topics accessible to the largest possible community of women. During our forty plus years of publication we have attempted to create a forum in which all of us--not only university women--can exchange our ideas, personal experiences, expertise and creativity. By demystifying our communications with one another we are actively working towards serving as a middle ground between the scholarly and the popular, between theory and activism. We welcome experiential articles and essays; book, art, and film reviews; and creative work.
Our key criteria for accepting material for publication are clarity, interest to the diverse lives of our readership, and thematic relevance. While we do not restrict our always-expanding sense of what makes a contribution "feminist"--we strive for a presentation of different perspectives--we will not publish writing that is sexist, racist, homophobic or in any other way discriminatory. We particularly welcome French-language contributions and manuscripts in both languages that deal with issues pertaining to the lives of women of colour, Aboriginal women, immigrant women, working class women, women with disabilities, lesbians, and other marginalized women.
Please visit our website at http://www.cwscf.ca for more information.
Current Issue
With this special issue, centred on the theme of Visionary Feminisms, we commemorate Luciana Ricciutelli, longtime Editor-in-Chief extraordinaire of Inanna Publications and Canadian Woman Studies/ les cahiers de la femme. In honour of Lu’s work and legacy, we have gathered contributions here by scholars, artists, and activists young and elder, academic and community-engaged—offering
research reports, individual and group reflections, case studies, images, poetry and book reviews that analyse feminist movement-building, mobilization, and social transformation in historical and contemporary movements in Canada and globally.
Together, authors gathered in these pages demonstrate the challenges visionary feminists face and the transformative power of what they achieve, build, and call attention to. They offer insights aimed to strengthen mobilizations and movements in the midst of our collapsing necro-political economic system. At the centre is a call to activate our agency, empower our empathy, and gather our collective powers to shape a better world.
