The Journal of International Women’s Studies is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed feminist journal that provides a forum for scholars, activists, and students to explore the relationships among theories of gender and sexuality and various forms of organizing and critical practice.
Current Issue: Volume 27, Issue 2 (2025) 10th World Conference on Women's Studies
Editors Introduction
Change-Makers: Women’s Studies Scholar-Activism across the Disciplines (10th World Conference on Women’s Studies)
Sarani Ghosal Mondal, Naresh Prajapati, and Tina Renier
Articles
Rewriting Histories: The Experiences of Pioneering Egyptian Women Architects in the Socio-Political Context of the Nasser Era
Mai M. Aboul-dahab, Yasser M. Moustafa, and Yasser M. Mansour
Sociocultural Impediments to the Economic Empowerment of Women: An Analysis of the Toy Industry in Etikoppaka
Balireddy M. N. Teja and Moksha Singh
Promoting Women’s Leadership in Climate Resilience: A Strategy for South Asia
Naresh Prajapati and Deepak Kumar Chauhan
Bama’s Sangati: A Collective Resistance to Oppression and Attitudinal Ambivalence towards Dalit Women
Sarani Ghosal Mondal
The Representation of Women Politicians in Pakistani English-Language Newspapers
Awais Rubbani and Sharifah N. H. Alkaff
Female Embodiment and Corporeality in Sanskrit Prognostication: A Study of the Bṛhatpārāśarahorā Śāstra
Tara Sheemar
Feminist Rehabilitation Counseling: Vocational Rehabilitation for Women with Disabilities in Global Contexts
Abigail O. Akande
Women’s Stories of/in Athens, Greece: Reflections for Future Cities
Christina Marouli
Setting the Record Straight: Recording the Global Contribution to Education Research of Panamanian Scholar Etilvia Arjona Chang
Nanette Archer Svenson
Reproductive and Sexual Autonomy in Hillary Jordan’s When She Woke
U. H. Ruhina Jesmin
Essay
Executive Editors
Diana Fox, Department of Anthropology, Bridgewater State University, USA
Kimberly Chabot Davis, Department of English, Bridgewater State University, USA
Priyanka Tripathi, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India
Catherine Ndinda, Human Science Research Council, Pretoria; Development Studies, University of South Africa
Book Review Editors
Sreejata Paul, Department of English, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR, India
Ayesha Perveen, Department of English, Virtual University of Pakistan
Film Review Editors
Mohosin Mandal, Department of English, Alipurduar Mahila Mahavidyalay, India
Olanireti O. Falade, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Darlene Miller, Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs, South Africa
Editorial Assistants
Emma Voelker, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA
Ashley Luise, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA
Special Issue Editors
Naresh Prajapati, Department of Law, School of Legal Studies, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, India
Sarani Ghosal Mondal, Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Goa, India
Tina Renier, UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab, Jamaica