In anticipation of the journal’s 50th anniversary in 2025, the Editorial Collective is featuring “Voices Relevant for Our Times,” a revisiting of past Frontiers essays that speak to current topics in culture, politics, and feminism.
Women and Feminism in Palestine and the Arab & Middle Eastern Worlds
- “Gender, Sexuality, and Class in National Narrations: Palestinian Camp Women Tell Their Lives” by Rosemary Sayigh (1998, issue #19.2)
- “Seeking a Feminist Politics for the Middle East after September 11” by Janet Afary (2004, issue #25.1)
- “The Nuances of Islam: Empowerment and Agency for Palestinian Women in the West Bank” by Anne Sofie Roald (2016, issue #37.3)
Feminist & Gender Perspectives on Nation, Nationhood, & Nationalism
- Special Issue: Gender, Nation, and Nationalisms guest edited by Jane Slaughter & Shane Phelan (1996, issue #16.2/3)
- “To Build a Nation: Black Women Writers, Black Nationalism, and the Violent Reduction of Wholeness” by Amanda J. Davis (2005, issue #26.3)
- “Critical Interventions into Place, Nation, Creativity, and Feminist Knowledge” by Judy Wu & Guisela Latorre (2013, issue #34.2)
- “Transnational Feminisms Roundtable” by Maylei Blackwell, Laura Briggs, & Mignonette Chiu (2015, issue #36.3)
Nikki Giovanni & Women of the Black Arts Movement
- “A Talk with Nikki Giovanni” by Lynne Domash, Suzanne Juhasz, and Nikki Giovanni (1975, issue #1.1)
- ““A Sweet Inspiration…of My People:” The Art of Nikki Giovanni” by Suzanne Juhasz (1975, issue #1.1)
- ““Set Your Blackness Free:” Barbara Ann Teer’s Art and Activism during the Black Arts Movement” by La Donna L. Forsgren (2015, issue #36.1)
- ““Tryna Free Kansas City:” The Revolutions of Janelle Monáe as Digital Griot” by Cassandra L. Jones (2018, issue #39.1)
Global Feminist Activism & Collective Resistance
- “The Women’s Movement in Yugoslavia: The Case of the Conference for the Social Activity of Women in Croatia, 1965-1974” by Manuela Dobos (1983, issue #1983)
- “Activist Stories: Culture and Continuity in Black Women’s Narratives of Grassroots Community Work” by Cheryl Rodriguez (1998, issue #19.2)
- “Las Super Madres de Latino America: Transforming Motherhood by Challenging Violence in Mexico, Argentina, and El Salvador” by Cynthia L. Bejarano (2002, issue #23.1)
- “Islamist Feminism in Morocco: (Re)defining the Political Sphere” by Meriem El Haitami (2016, issue #37.3)
- “Sisterhood in Movement: Feminist Solidarity in France and the United States” by Kelli Zaytoun & Judith Ezekiel (2016, issue #37.1)
- “New Generation Caribbean Feminism: #beyondborders” by Asha Maharaj & Patricia Mohammed (2024, issue #45.2)
Women & Gender in Migration, Borders, & Displacement
- “Queering the Borderlands: The Challenges of Excavating the Invisible and Unheard” by Emma Pérez (2003, Issue #24.2/3)
- “Globalization and Its Discontents: Exposing the Underside” by Evelyn Hu-Dehart (2003, Issue #24.2/3)
- “Positioning Women’s Rights within Asylum Policy: A Feminist Analysis of Political Persecution” by Sara L. Zeigler & Kendra B. Stewart (2009, issue #30.2)
- “Challenging “Americans Are Dreamers, Too:” Undocumented Youths’ Queer and Feminist Coalition Politics” by Katie Oliviero (2021, issue #42.2)