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Women's Studies Quarterly
OCLC no.
7387895
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Women's Studies Quarterly, often referred to as WSQ, is a biannual

The Feminist Press. The Feminist Press was founded by Florence Howe in 1970.[1]
Before changing its name to Women's Studies Quarterly in 1981, the publication was titled Women's Studies Newsletter. The name change indicated a shift in the publication's purpose and content.

Along with scholarly articles, the journal publishes fiction and

CUNY Graduate Center) in Midtown Manhattan
, is still the sole publisher for each issue of WSQ issue.

The 

editors-in-chief are Jillian Báez (College of Staten Island, CUNY) and Natalie Havlin (LaGuardia Community College, CUNY). The poetry editor is Patricia Smith (College of Staten Island, CUNY). The fiction and prose
editor is Rosalie Morales Kearns.

Previous editors-in-chief are Cynthia Chris (

(CUNY Graduate Center
).

In 2007, WSQ obtained the 2007 Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement of

The Council of Editors of Learned Journals.[3]

History

The journal was established in 1972 as the Women's Studies Newsletter, obtaining its current name in 1981.[4] The first newsletter was published in 1972 and was published one time per season. On occasion there were less than four publications per year because editions condensed two seasons into one publication. As a newsletter, the topics were focused on women's studies curriculum in all grade levels, children's books, and receiving funding for women's studies programs and faculty.[5] The newsletter created the core network that transformed into the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) in 1977.[6]

The first issue of Women's Studies Newsletter released in Fall 1972 begins the Front Matter with a section describing The Clearinghouse on Women's Studies. The Clearinghouse on Women's Studies began in 1969 in Florence Howe's office at Goucher College.[7] The academic field of Women's Studies in the United States was in its early stages, and the Clearhousing on Women's Studies was a way to connect the growing community of women's studies scholars. In 1970, Howe asked the Modern Language Association's executive council to enable the Clearinghouse on Women's Studies to issue the first "Guide to Women's Studies Courses and Programs." Three "Guides," or lists of women's studies courses, were issued by the Clearinghouse between October 1971 and the summer of 1973. The Women's Studies Newsletter was a project of Clearinghouse, which was "an education project of the Feminist Press."[8]

The Front Matter of the 1972 newsletter dates its origins to an east coast women's studies conference in Pittsburgh where a group decided to organize a women's studies newsletter.[9] The newsletter was aimed to "be a forum throughout the country for the women's studies movement."[10] Individuals reading and engaging with the newsletter were interested in how to get funding for women's studies programs and how to create jobs for people to teach these types of classes. Topics included news updates from Clearinghouse and other ongoing initiatives, academic reviews and articles, case studies from certain schools or universities, reading lists, and other topics pertinent to the expanding discipline of women's studies throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s.

As the third issue went to press, the newsletter has upwards of 500 subscribers.[11] Subscription costs ranged between one and two dollars per issue.[12] However, once the newsletter entered its fifth year of publication (1976), the subscription list had stagnated at just under 2,000, which did not equate to the compiled list of women's studies teachers in higher education that had grown to over 5,500.[13] This disparity caused the newsletter to increase subscription costs moving forward. In the Fall 1976 issue, there was a proposal for a founding convention of National Women's Studies Association placed next to the edition's editorial.[14] NWSA became a co-publisher of the Women's Studies Newsletter throughout 1982, at which point it returned to solely being produced by the Feminist Press.

References

  1. OCLC 669754937
    .
  2. ^ "About WSQ". Feminist Press. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  3. ^ "Winners: Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement: 2007". The Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
  4. University of Wisconsin
    . Retrieved 1 May 2014.
  5. JSTOR 40041818
    .
  6. ^ The Feminist Press (1980-10-01). "Editorial: Goodbye, Women's Studies Newsletter: Hello, Women's Studies Quarterly!". Women's Studies Quarterly.
  7. OCLC 669754937
    .
  8. JSTOR 40041818
    .
  9. JSTOR 40041818
    .
  10. OCLC 669754937
    .
  11. ^ The Feminist Press (1973-04-01). "Editorial". Women's Studies Quarterly.
  12. OCLC 669754937
    .
  13. ^ The Feminist Press (1976-10-01). "Editorial". Women's Studies Quarterly.
  14. ^ The Feminist Press (1976-10-01). "Editorial". Women's Studies Quarterly.

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