About the Journal
Please note that gender forum is still in the process of moving to Open Journal Systems (hosted by USB Cologne - see https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/). We are currently designing the new layout and migrating back issues to this platform, so bear with us!
gender forum is an online, peer reviewed academic journal dedicated to the discussion of gender issues. As an open access online journal, gender forum offers a platform for the discussion of gender-related topics in the fields of literary and cultural production, media and the arts as well as politics, the natural sciences, medicine, the law, religion and philosophy.
Inaugurated by Beate Neumeier at the University of Cologne (Germany) in 2002, issues of gender forum have since focused on a multitude of questions from different theoretical perspectives of feminist criticism, queer theory, and masculinity studies. gender forum also occasionally includes interviews, fictional pieces and poetry with a gender studies angle.
Listed as an open access journal, gender forum also cooperates with a number of academic databases. All material on gender forum, unless stated otherwise, is protected under the creative commons license.
We currently welcome submissions for articles for special issues as advertised under "announcements." Abstracts or full-length articles should be submitted via this website.
AI Policy: Large Language Models (LLMs) and other forms of generative artificial intelligence do not meet our human authorship criteria. We will thus not consider submissions produced with the help of generative AI. This includes the use of AI to write text, survey preexisting criticism, or generate ideas. AI-generated translations may be included with clear attribution as long as the author assumes all responsibility for the accuracy of these inclusions. Authors may use AI for copy-editing purposes, such as formatting, grammar, spelling, or punctuation checks. Any change to the wording that shifts the meaning of the text must be made transparent and human proofreading must be ensured for the final version of the text.
