Feminist Studies

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Feminist Studies first appeared in 1972, after more than three years of discussion and planning. At that time, women from Columbia University's women's liberation group, students in a women's studies course at Sarah Lawrence College, and feminist activists from New York City brought together a wide network of feminists committed to creating a scholarly journal with high scholarly standards and community relevance. This feminist network believed that the women's movement needed an analytic forum to engage the issues raised by the movement and to bring together the contributions of feminist activists and scholars. The title, Feminist Studies, was chosen to indicate that the content of the journal would be both scholarly and political and would foreground women as a social group and gender as a category of analysis. The journal's first editor, Ann Calderwood, ran the journal as an out-of-pocket, out-of-apartment operation, publishing only three volumes before 1977, several of which were Special Issues drawing on papers first presented at the earliest conferences organized by the Berkshire Conference in Women's History. It is sometimes difficult to remember how rapidly feminism grew in the early 1970s. In 1969 it was a radical notion to argue that women should be studied; by 1977 women's studies was beginning its phenomenal growth inside the academy. In the fall of that year, the journal was restructured and thereafter edited by a collective of academics...

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