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Gender Studies

The Journal of West University, Timisoara, Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies

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About the journal

For our 2025 issue, in addition to manuscripts on various gender-related topics to be published in a general section, we invite contributions to a special section titled “Public Discourses about/by Women Migrants and Refugees from Central and Eastern Europe: (In)visibility and (Dis)empowerment”....
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Editor-in-chief

Irina Diana Mădroane
West University of Timișoara, Romania
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All volumes and issues in this journal

Open Access
|Dec 2024
“Broken, I Want a Serious Relationship”: The (Self-)Representation of Heterosexual Masculinities on Tinder in India
Open Access
|Dec 2024
“I’m Not Pretty Anymore:” Femininity and Beauty in the Barbie Movie
Open Access
|Dec 2024
The Perfect Feminist Movie Does Not Exist: Screening the Barbie Buzz
Open Access
|Dec 2024
‘Breaking’ the Silence and ‘Fighting’ Back: Changing Representations of Female Response to Gender-Based Violence in Select Malayalam Films
Open Access
|Dec 2024
Female Language in Research Articles Written by Transgender Scientists
Open Access
|Dec 2024
Challenging Male Entitlement and Patriarchy: Promising Young Woman, Barbie, and Contemporary Feminist Theory

Journal details

Aims and scope

For our 2025 issue, in addition to manuscripts on various gender-related topics to be published in a general section, we invite contributions to a special section titled “Public Discourses about/by Women Migrants and Refugees from Central and Eastern Europe: (In)visibility and (Dis)empowerment”. Please note that we only accept manuscripts for this section on the basis of abstract selection (details in the CfP).

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Gender Studies (GS) is a journal addressing academics and a general readership at the same time. Its main goals are to explore literature, language, culture and society from the perspective of gender practices and relations, and also to highlight attempts of educationalists and gender studies experts in various parts of the world to institutionalize Gender Studies in the academe.

The GS journal welcomes original research employing primarily qualitative methods of analysis in the following areas: literature, linguistics, discourse studies, media and film studies, popular culture, cultural studies, history and education for the field of humanities.

Why subscribe and read

  • The GS journal publishes high-quality peer-reviewed articles from various humanities and social sciences areas (as listed above).
  • The GS journal is interdisciplinary, gender proving an excellent analytical category that enables new perspectives at the intersection of a range disciplines.
  • The GS publishes state-of-the-art research.

Why submit

  • The journal has international circulation.
  • The contributors include scholars from many countries all over the world.
  • The contributors can count on constructive peer-review by experts.
  • The GS is highly assessed by the Romanian Ministry of Education and has a good reputation among scholars and students alike.

Acceptance Rate

  • 35%
eISSN: 2286-0134|ISSN: 1583-980X|Language: English|Publication timeframe: 1 time per year
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