50!
First published in 1972, Women’s Studies Quarterly (WSQ) will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary in 2022. Originally printed as Women’s Studies Newsletter, the inaugural issue declared itself a “clearinghouse on Women’s Studies,” and soon became a key part of the Feminist Press’s mission to advance women’s scholarship in higher education. Over the past five decades, the journal has become a mainstay in the production of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship, continuing to challenge and adapt to the ever-evolving field.
In WSQ 50!, academics critically reflect on the legacy of the longest-running feminist scholarly journal, tracing the history of the journal in conversation with other knowledge and activist projects and interdisciplinary fields, revisiting key pieces of writing from the past fifty years, and considering WSQ within the broad institutionalization of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In doing so, WSQ 50! charts a way forward for the next fifty years of interdisciplinary feminist knowledge projects.
Heather Rellihan is a professor of gender and sexuality studies and chair of Interdisciplinary Studies at Anne Arundel Community College (AACC). She also serves as codirector of the Curriculum Transformation Project at AACC. She is coeditor of Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches and Theory and Praxis: Women’s and Gender Studies at Community College.Jennifer C. Nashis Jean Fox O’Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography; Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality; and Birthing Black Mothers, all on Duke University Press.Charlene A. Carruthersis a Chicago based writer, filmmaker, and PhD student in the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University. Her work spans more than fifteen years of community organizing across racial, gender and economic justice movements as a community organizer and political strategist. She is the author of the bookUnapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements.
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