We hope that whether you are a just beginning your career as a historian or are a senior scholar in the field, you will consider submitting your work for consideration at the Journal of Women's History. Please see our website for submission guidelines and contact us at womenshistory@uiuc.edu if you have any questions.

Among our forthcoming articles are:

Carolyn Herbst-Lewis, "Waking Sleeping Beauty: The Premarital Pelvic Exam and Heterosexuality during the Cold War"

Sara Butler, "Abortion by Assault: Violence against Pregnant Women in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century England"

Barbara Weinstein, "Inventing the 'Mulher Paulista': Politics, Rebellion, and the Gendering of Brazilian Regional Identities"

Julie Willett, "Hands Across the Table: A Short History of the Manicurist in the Twentieth Century"

Afsaneh Najmabadi, "Beyond the Americas: Are Gender and Sexuality Useful Categories of Historical Analysis?" (One of the keynote addresses from the 13th Berkshire Conference of Women Historians)

Our first History Practice section, vol. 17.4, features reflections upon the ways in which colleagues' teaching of gender and women's history has been impacted by war. The second History Practice, with contributions from scholars based in the United States, Africa, India and Japan, focuses on women historians and conditions of work in the 21st century. We welcome suggestions for future History Practice themes.

Vol. 18: 1 features our first Book Forum, in which scholars examine Leslie Peirce's Morality Tales: Law and Gender in Ottoman Court of Aintab (California, 2003). We plan to continue to spotlight books that have had a significant impact on women's history within the past decade, as well as new titles whose thematic concerns, method, and theoretical groundwork speak to a broad and diverse women's history audience.

Jean Allman and Antoinette Burton, editors
Marilyn Booth, Book Review Editor
Jennifer Edwards and Rebecca McNulty, Managing Editors