We announce that Professor Kimberly Jew is stepping down from the role of Co-Editor after 5 years at the journal. Among her many contributions to Frontiers are two special issues that she edited: Black Performance and Staging Feminist Futures. Dr. Jew also wrote numerous memorable editorial introductions and mentored incoming editors. Her expertise in gender and race in theater and other media has been and will remain an inspiring resource…
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William Mosley
Frontiers Augmented highlights selected authors from our issues to create a means for deeper engagement with the content published in the Frontiers Journal. The most recent issue 44.1, edited by Frontiers Co-Editors Darius Bost, Wanda S. Pillow, and Kimberly M. Jew, highlights author William Mosley, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender,…
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The Divorce Colony
Our culture’s fascination with scandal and sensationalism did not begin with the Kennedys or Kardashians, but instead, has roots in the end of the nineteenth-century, when the U.S. press became fascinated with the growing number of women seeking divorce. April White’s The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier tells the stories of four…
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2023 NWSA Women of Color Caucus – Frontiers Student Essay Award
The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) in partnership with Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies invites paper submissions for the 2023 NWSA Women of Color Caucus-Frontiers Student Essay Award. The purpose of this award is to discover, encourage, and promote the intellectual development of emerging scholars who engage in critical theoretical discussions and/or analyses about feminist/womanist issues concerning women and…
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Frontiers at 50: The Past, Present, and Future of Feminist Knowledge Production
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies was founded in Boulder, Colorado, in 1975 and was housed in the Women’s Studies department at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Frontiers began as a volunteer-based organization to bridge academic and community-based feminist knowledge and corresponded with a local movement among students, faculty, and community members to develop a women’s studies program at the University…
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Honour-based Violence and Forced Marriages
Honour-based Violence and Forced Marriages: Community and Restorative Practices in Europe by Clara Rigoni explains issues that are truly relevant in our modern world. The book is mostly about such urgent matters as violation of human rights (especially those of women and children) in gender-based violence. Rigoni analyzes reasons for, features, and consequences of various kinds of violence that women…
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Hossein Nazari & Fateme Nazari
Frontiers Augmented highlights selected authors from our issues to create a means for deeper engagement with the content published in the Frontiers Journal. The most recent general issue 43.3, edited by Frontiers Co-Editors Wanda S. Pillow, Kimberly M. Jew, and Darius Bost, highlights authors Hossein Nazari, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Tehran, and Fateme Nazari, M.A.,…
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Dressed for Freedom
This fascinating and timely work will have you think twice about the clothes you put on every day. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox asks readers to take another look at twentieth-century fashion – this time, with a feminist lens. Throughout the twentieth century, she argues, women used fashion to express their politics and to influence mainstream consciousness. Dressed for Freedom examines the meanings…
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Cara Delay & Beth Sundstrom
Frontiers Augmented highlights selected authors from our issues to create a means for deeper engagement with the content published in the Frontiers Journal. The most recent general issue 43.2, edited by Frontiers Co-Editors Wanda S. Pillow, Kimberly M. Jew, and Darius Bost, highlights authors Cara Delay, Professor of History at the College of Charleston, and Beth Sundstrom, Associate Professor of Communication and…
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Book Review: Glitch Feminism & Wild Things in Conversation
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell and Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire by Professor Jack Halberstam are two texts that you would not initially draw comparisons between. Russell’s primary focus is on the digital world, whereas Halberstam’s is on the natural. These two worlds have traditionally occupied separate sides of the natural/digital binary, its variations including the wild/logic,…
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Ruby Chacón
Frontiers Augmented highlights selected authors from our issues to create a means for deeper engagement with the content published in the Frontiers Journal. The most recent general issue, 43.1, edited by Frontiers Co-Editors Wanda S. Pillow, Kimberly M. Jew, and Darius Bost, highlights the issue’s cover artist, Ruby Chacón, community muralist, artist, and teacher. Artist Statement I continue to paint our counter…
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Desert Chrome
For those new to Kathryn Wilder’s nature-based creative nonfiction, she draws from her life, and how her decisions have affected not only her, but her family and the advocacy she lives as well. Her work has been cited in Best American Essays and nominated for the PEN America Literary Award and Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications such…
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Clelia O. Rodríguez
Frontiers Augmented highlights selected authors from our issues to create a means for deeper engagement with the content published in the Frontiers Journal. The most recent special issue, Deterritorializing Frontiers 42.3, edited by Frontiers Co-Editors Silvia Solís, Wanda S. Pillow, Kimberly M. Jew, and Darius Bost, highlights author Clelia O. Rodríguez, Ph.D., from the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning and the…
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Call for Papers: 2022 NWSA Women of Color Caucus – Frontiers Student Essay Award
Application Submission Deadline: July 1st, 2022 The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) in partnership with Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies invites paper submissions for the 2022 NWSA Women of Color Caucus-Frontiers Student Essay Award. The purpose of this award is to discover, encourage, and promote the intellectual development of emerging scholars who engage in critical theoretical discussions and/or analyses…
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Special Issue: Asian American Abolition Feminisms **DEADLINE EXTENDED**
Call for Papers: Asian American Abolition Feminisms Special Issue Editors: Diane Wong (Rutgers University-Newark) and Rachel Kuo (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Time zones apart, we listened to the news unfold — learning and grieving the names of the eight victims of the March 2021 Atlanta shootings at massage parlors that sounded intimately familiar to the names of our sisters, aunties,…
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Medicine Stories
Aurora Levins Morales’s book sets the reader up on a journey through her teachings and knowledges that she has gained over the years as a Puerto Rican Ashkenazi Jewish activist. This newly revised edition that expands on the original 1998 version, takes into consideration and subtly comments on the current political, social and activists’ climate. Morales explores the complexities of…
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Beyond the Periphery of the Skin
Marxist feminist scholar Silvia Federici’s latest book, based on a series of lectures delivered at the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2015, critically examines the role of the body under late capitalism. The book draws significantly from her earlier work Caliban and the Witch (2004), which examines the ways in which the persecution of women libelled as witches was…
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Jennifer E. Cossyleon
Frontiers Augmented highlights selected authors from our issues to create a means for deeper engagement with the content published in the Frontiers Journal. The most recent general issue 42.2, edited by Frontiers Co-Editors Wanda S. Pillow, Kimberly M. Jew, and Darius Bost, highlights author Jennifer E. Cossyleon, Ph.D., winner of the 2018 National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Women of Color Caucus-Frontiers Student…