Where to Publish Undergraduate Research

The following discussion of possible places to publish
undergraduate research in Women's Studies took place on WMST-L in
May 2003, with some information added later.  For additional
WMST-L files available on the Web, see the WMST-L File Collection.

I have an undergraduate student who collected her own data and wrote a
good analysis of the role the Vagina Monologues is playing in reviving
campus feminism. She is interested in graduate school and I would like
to help her find a way to publish this work. Does anyone know of
undergraduate or feminist journals open to this kind of work (at an
advanced undergraduate level)? Reply to list if others are interested.
Thank you - Jo Reger Oakland University

It sounds like something that BITCH:Feminist Response to Pop Culture
might consider.  You can (or your student can) reach their editor, Lisa
Jervis, at lisa  AT  bitchmagazine.com.  Naturally, the writing style would
have to be more massmarket than academic for something like this, but I
should think that wouldn't be too difficult to do.

Hanne Blank

Hanne Blank, writer / editor
hanne  AT  hanne.net
misia_sert  AT  yahoo.com

http://www.hanne.net

I"m also interested in this question. A graduate student in our
program from China has written a very good analysis of the changing
position of women in the transition from Maoist to post-Maoist gender
policies. It is perhaps not sufficiently developed to be submitted to
a "regular" professional journal, but would be an excellent submission
to a journal featuring the work of students.  Are there any?

Thanks,

Kathy Ferguson
Director
Women's Studies Program
University of Hawai`i

The Women's Studies grad students at the University of Cincinnati have a new
journal called The Rag.  Their email address is cincinnati_rag  AT  yahoo.com
You might try that.
Deb Meem

www.feminista.com is an on-line journal (now back on-line) which seems to
publish essays from student writers.

Donna M. Bickford, Ph.D.
dbi6066u  AT  postoffice.uri.edu
University of Rhode Island
Women's Studies Program
Roosevelt Hall, #315
Kingston, RI 02881

j_spot: journal of social and political thought is an online, refereed
journal that welcomes feminist work and work by students:
www.yorku.ca/jspot .


Caitlin Fisher
Assistant Professor
Fine Arts Cultural Studies
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M3J 1P3

voice: 416-736-2100 Ext.20744
fax: 416-650-8034
www.yorku.ca/caitlin/

There's also _thirdspace_, a journal for emerging feminist scholars that
welcomes student research and just sent out a CFP. http://www.thirdspace.ca

Karen Dias
Women's Studies
University of British Columbia
diaskaren  AT  hotmail.com

Try the NWSA journal or Journal of Popular Culture.
Denise

Denise M. Marshall
denimars  AT  fdu.edu

College at Florham
Fairleigh Dickinson University
285 Madison Avenue, M-LA0-03
Madison, NJ 07940-I099

> Try the NWSA journal

  Yeah, I was waiting for someone to suggest that.  And while I can't speak
for the Journal (see http://nwsaj.appstate.edu/ ), they were very receptive
to and helpful with a review essay by me, and I think they are always
looking for book reviewers--a great way to cut one's teeth on scholarship, I
should think.  The review essays (min. 5 books) earn one a byline, but the
reviews cannot hurt a developng C.V.
  The Journal is currently in transition over the summer--to a new home at
Iowa State University, in Ames, Iowa.  The new book review editor is Leslie
Bloom, blooml  AT  iastate.edu, who teaches Feminist Theory

                         Leslie Bloom, Book Review Editor
                         N165 Lagomarcino Hall
                         College of Education
                         Iowa State University
                         Ames, IA 50011

  Any other questions about NWSA Journal, I would direct to Iowa State
Women's Studies Department directly.

Have a lovely summer, everyone!
Hannah Miyamoto
B.A., Social Change & Development, 24h 20 min. from now
UW-Green Bay
hsmiyamoto  AT  msn.com

Indiana University South Bend annually publishes their
undergraduate journal, New Views on Gender.  This journal has
been published since 1995.  Submissions from undergraduates
throughout the nation are accepted.  For further information: New
Views on Gender 1700 Mishawaka Avenue PO Box 7111 South Bend, IN
46634-7111 http://www.iusb.edu/~newviews/