Established in 2003, The Scholar and Feminist Online is a biannual, multimedia, peer-reviewed, online-only journal dedicated to advancing intersectional social justice feminist thought and practice. As with BCRW’s eponymous conference The Scholar and Feminist, S&F Online features the research of scholars, activists, and artists from a variety of disciplines and global locations whose work articulates the ever-evolving role of feminist knowledge production in struggles for social justice and liberation.
As an open access journal, S&F Online is published under a creative commons license, which means that all content is freely available without charge. In accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative declaration, users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. The sole limitation on sharing or reproducing these works should be to ensure that authors retain control over the accuracy of their content and receive appropriate credit through citation. For permission to reprint, please contact the author.
S&F Online is a member of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and follows its rigorous peer review process based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by two anonymous peer reviewers. As members of the Radical Open Access Collective (ROAC), S&F Online also aligns with the commitment to non-commercial, open-access, and scholarly-led publishing in not-for-profit, cooperative models.
S&F Online is committed to the free and unrestricted dissemination of knowledge in support of scholarly intersectional feminist research and public discourse. The journal upholds the AAUP’s Principles of Academic Freedom as central to its mission. Published material does not necessarily reflect the positions of Barnard College.
S&F Online’s editorial team works with guest editors to propose and develop new issues. Individual contributions are not accepted at this time.
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History
The Barnard Center for Research on Women was founded in 1971 as one of the first feminist research institutes in the United States and is home to the nationally recognized The Scholar & Feminist Conference. Anthologies published in the 1980s, including The Future of Difference (1981) and Pleasure and Danger (1982), were based on this conference.
At its inception, the journal provided public access to the Barnard Center for Research on Women’s most innovative programming by publishing written transcripts, audio and visual recordings, and links to relevant intellectual and social action networks. S&F Online continues the transformation of live events to publication as a dynamic, living archive while advancing intersectional feminist scholarship and other applicable resources. A fusion of art, criticism, activism, and technology, S&F Online invites its audience to join in the conversation.