About the Journal
gender forum is an open-access, peer reviewed academic journal dedicated to the discussion of gender issues. gender forum publishes work relevant to gender studies, feminist criticism, masculinity studies, trans studies, sexuality studies, and/or queer studies. All contributions must be written in English; we specifically welcome papers that consider the intersections of issues of gender and sexuality with other social categories of difference.
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.
