Women and Language, an international interdisciplinary research periodical, provides a feminist forum focused on issues of gender, communication, and language. W&L accepts submissions of scholarly articles that make conceptual and research contributions to the study of communication, language, and gender. Essays on current issues in the field as well as book reviews and reviews of digital media are welcome.
Women and Language seeks to stimulate dialogue and inquiry centering the questions of how gender is constructed and how the processes of difference, dichotomy and hierarchy are involved in such gender constructions. It aims to uncover the interconnections among sex, gender, race, class, and heterosexual hegemony, examining the role of symbolic communication, verbal and non verbal, in those processes and connections, attending especially to the impacts of masculinist paradigms in communication. As a periodical that is both newsletter and journal, Women and Language provides an outlet for descriptive research and theoretical speculation and welcomes submissions of completed research, essays, poetry, information about work in progress, bibliographical materials, and news.
Women & Language is published by the Humanities Department at Michigan Technological University. W&L is affiliated with the Organization for the Study of Communication Language and Gender (OSCLG). OSCLG provides a forum for interdisciplinary discussion and presentation of theory, research, creative projects, and pedagogy in the areas of communication, language and gender, and promotes recognition of those doing work in this area (see www.osclg.org).
Individual members of OSCLG receive a reduced rate for subscribing to Women and Language; a departmental membership in the OSCLG includes a subscription to Women and Language. Women and Language subscribers need not join OSCLG.
Publication Frequency: twice annually (Spring and Fall issues)
ISSN: 8755-4550
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Editorial Team:
Patty Sotirin, Editor, January 2010 (pjsotiri@mtu.edu)
Cynthia Weber, Assistant Editor (clweberb@mtu.edu)
David Clanaugh, Assistant Editor (daclanau@mtu.edu)
Roxane Gay, Consulting Editor (rgay@mtu.edu)
Section Editors:
Erika Kirby, Book Review Editor (erikakirby@creighton.edu)
Allyson Jule, Media Review Editor (allyson.jule@twu.ca)
Jimmie Manning, Alternative Scholarship Editor (manningj1@nku.edu)
Anita Taylor, News Manager and Immediate Past Editor (ataylor@gmu.edu)
Editorial Board
Brenda Allen, University of Colorado, Boulder
Shawny Anderson, St. Mary’s College of California
Jay Baglia, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Deborah Ballard-Reisch, Wichita State University
Elizabeth Bell, University of South Florida
Victoria Bergvall, Michigan Technological University
Cynthia Berryman-Fink, University of Cincinnati
Patrice M. Buzzanell, Purdue University
Alice Deakins, William Paterson University
Nicole Defenbaugh, Bloomsburg University
Paige P. Edley, Loyola Marymount University
Laura Ellingson, Santa Clara University
Patricia Geist Martin, San Diego State University
MJ Hardman, University of Florida
Stacy Holman Jones, University of South Florida
Renee Houston, University of Puget Sound
Jane Jorgenson, University of South Florida
Cheris Kramarae, University of Oregon
Erika L. Kirby, Creighton University
Jimmie Manning, Northern Kentucky University
Chad C. McBride, Creighton University
Melanie Mills, Eastern Illinois University
Bren Ortega Murphy, Loyola University Chicago
Stephanie Norander, Missouri State
Linda A.M. Perry, University of San Diego
Laura Prividera, East Carolina University
Robyn V. Remke, Copenhagen Business School
Linda Seward, Middle Tennessee State University
Karla Scott, St. Louis University
Amy Sheldon, University of Minnesota
Helen Sterk, Calvin College
Anita Taylor, George Mason University
Lynn Turner, Marquette University
Paaige K. Turner, St. Louis University
Mary Vavrus, University of Minnesota
Zhang Wei, Peking University, China
