List of feminist periodicals in the United States
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This is a list of feminist periodicals in the United States. A feminist periodical is a journal, magazine, or newsletter that primarily publishes content reflecting the ideologies of the Women's Movement. Though interpretations of feminism vary from one periodical to the next, all of these publications aimed to provide a space for women to express their thoughts, ideas, and goals. This list is by no means exhaustive.
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Era | Name | Start Date | End Date | Location | Publisher(s) | Frequency | Notes | Identifier | References |
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1800s | Advocate and family guardian | 1835 | 1941 | New York City, New York | New York Female Moral Reform Society; American Female Guardian Society | Semi-monthly | OCLC 30552324 | [1] | |
The Una | 1853 | 1855 | Boston, Massachusetts | [2][3] | |||||
Woman's Journal | 1870 | 1931 | Boston, Massachusetts | Weekly | OCLC 7383821 | [4][5] | |||
American Association of University Women Outlook | 1884 | Active | Washington D.C. | American Association of University Women | 3 times a year | ISSN 0001-0278, 1044-5706, 0161-5661 | [6] | ||
The American Jewess | 1895 | 1899 | Chicago, Illinois | The first English-language periodical published for American Jewish women. | OCLC 5782568 | [7] | |||
1900s | The Socialist Woman | 1907 | 1914 | Chicago, Illinois | The Socialist Woman Publishing Co. | Monthly | |||
Women in Music | 1935 | 1940 | New York, New York | OCLC 15728633 | |||||
1950s | The Ladder | 1956 | 1972 | Los Angeles, California | Daughters of Bilitis | Monthly, later Bimonthly | The first nationally distributed lesbian publication in the United States. | ISSN 0023-7108 OCLC 1037547553 | |
1960s | Aphra | 1969 | 1976 | New York, New York | A literary magazine. They published poetry, fiction, and various articles on the arts. Issues were frequently themed.[8] | ISSN 0003-6447 OCLC 1481674, 187448726 | [9][10][11][8] | ||
Focus | 1969 | 19?? | Boston, Massachusetts | Boston Daughters of Bilitis. | Monthly/Bi-Monthly | A literary review for gay women. | OCLC 2261157 | [8][5] | |
Women: A Journal of Liberation | 1969 | 1983 | Baltimore, Maryland | Women: A Journal of Liberation | Quarterly | A political and cultural journal. | ISSN 0043-7433OCLC 1250191222 | [12] | |
1970s | Off Our Backs | 1970 | 2008 | Washington D.C. | off our backs, inc. | Bimonthly | The longest surviving feminist newspaper in the United States.[13] | ISSN 0030-0071 OCLC 1038241 | [14][13] |
Ain't I A Woman? | 1970 | 1971 | Iowa City, Iowa | AIAW Collective / Iowa City Women's Liberation Front Publications Collective | Monthly | Feminist art and politics. | ISSN 0044-6939 OCLC 2221525 | [15][16][17] | |
Best Friends | 1971 | Unknown | Albuquerque, N.M. | Best Friends Poetry Collective | Less than quarterly | A women's poetry magazine. | OCLC 1001234876 | [18][8] | |
Black Maria | 1971 | Chicago, Illinois | Black Maria Collective Inc. | Annual | A feminist journal of art and politics. | ISSN 0045-222X OCLC 2786249 | [19][6][20] | ||
Earth's Daughters | 1971 | Active | Buffalo, New York | Earth's Daughters | 3 times a year | A feminist literary and art periodical. | ISSN 0163-0989 | [21][5] | |
The Lesbian Tide | 1971 | 1980 | Los Angeles, California | Tide Collective | Bi-monthly | The first national lesbian newspaper. Also, the first American magazine to use the word "lesbian" in its title. | ISSN 0270-8167OCLC 1167128712, 941667492, 917541844 | ||
Moving Out | 1971 | Detroit, Michigan | Moving Out Collective | Irregular | A feminist literary & arts journal. | ISSN 0047-830X | [8] | ||
The Second Wave: A Magazine of the New Feminism | 1971 | 1983 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Second Wave | Quarterly | A political periodical. Also published "many pages of poetry, fiction, book reviews and art."[8] | ISSN 0048-9980 OCLC 2267579 | [8][22] | |
The Amazon | 1972 | 1984 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | Amazon | 6 times a year | A journal for midwestern women. | OCLC 2045999, 1000824023ISSN 2381-0718 | ||
Amazon Quarterly | 1972 | 1975 | Oakland, California | Amazon Press | Quarterly | A lesbian feminist arts journal. | OCLC 2750571 | [23][24][25] | |
Country Women | 1972 | 1979 | Albion, California | Country Women Publications | A feminist country survival manual and a creative journal. | ISSN 0199-1361 OCLC 3804478 | [26] | ||
The Feminist Art Journal | 1972 | 1977 | New York | Feminist Art Journal, Inc. | Quarterly | ISSN 0300-7014 OCLC 0300-7014 | |||
Feminist Studies | 1972 | Active | College Park, Maryland | Feminist Studies, Inc. | 3 times a year | An independent, nonprofit peer-reviewed academic journal. | ISSN 0046-3663, 2153-3873OCLC 38966895 | ||
Media Report To Women | 1972 | Active | Washington, D.C. | Communication Research Associates, Inc. | Quarterly | A journal about what women are doing and thinking about communications media. | ISSN 0145-9651OCLC 476239773 | ||
Ms. | 1972 | Active | Virginia | Liberty Media for Women, L.L.C. | Quarterly | Typically credited as "the first national feminist magazine" for being the first mainstream feminist publication. | ISSN 0047-8318 OCLC 671775389 | [27] | |
New Directions for Women | 1972 | 1983 | Dover, New Jersey | Paula Kassell | Quarterly | A feminist newspaper. | ISSN 0160-1075OCLC 3617120 | [28] | |
Women & Film | 1972 | 1976 | California | Women and Film | 3 times a year | The first known feminist film magazine in the US. | ISSN 0049-7797 | ||
13th Moon | 1973 | Active | New York | 13th Moon, Inc. | Annual | A feminist literary magazine founded Ellen Marie Bissert | ISSN 0094-3320 OCLC 1165759346 | [29] | |
Big Mama Rag | 1973 | 1984 | Denver, Colorado | Big Mama Rag, Inc. | Monthly | A feminist newsjournal. | ISSN 0277-7533OCLC 23201144 | [6][30] | |
Dykes & Gorgons | 1973 | 1976 | Berkeley, California | Dykes & Gorgons | ISSN 2573-6183 OCLC 951615724, 55515875; | [31] | |||
Gravida | 1973 | 19?? | New York | Gravida, Ltd. | Quarterly | A literary and poetry journal. | ISSN 0191-0760OCLC 612072421 | [32][8] | |
The Lesbian Feminist | 1973 | New York, New York | The Lesbian Feminist Liberation | Monthly | Both a newsletter and a political journal. They published personal and political analyses of lesbian feminist experience. | OCLC 63149145 | [8] | ||
Albatross | 1974 | 1980 | East Orange, New Jersey | Albatross Collective | Bi-monthly | A radical-lesbian-feminist magazine. | OCLC 8740582 | [8] | |
Chomo-Uri | 1974 | 1979 | Amherst, Massachusetts | Chomo Uri Collective | 3 times a year | A "women's multi-art magazine." | ISSN 0190-4736OCLC 1051603856 | [33] | |
Dark Horse | 1974 | 19?? | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Dark Horse Poets, Inc. | Quarterly | "Boston's first poetry and fiction newspaper."[8] | OCLC 2943336 | [34][8][5] | |
Exponent II | 1974 | 2007 | Arlington, Massachusetts | Exponent II, Inc. | Quarterly | The longest-running independent publication for Latter-day Saint women. | ISSN 1094-7760 | ||
Jump Cut | 1974 | Active | Berkeley, California | Jump Cut Associates | Annual | "A Review of Contemporary Media" | ISSN 0146-5546OCLC 2971578 | [35][36] | |
Lesbian Connection | 1974 | Active | East Lansing, Michigan | Elsie Publishing Institute | Bimonthly | "The free worldwide forum of news & ideas for, by and about lesbians."[37] | ISSN 1081-3217 OCLC 10734023 | [37][38] | |
Lesbian Voices | 1974 | San Jose, California | Lesbian Voices | Quarterly | A literary and cultural journal. Edited by Rosalie Nichols. | OCLC 222412119 | |||
Paid My Dues: Journal of Women and Music | 1974 | 1980 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Chicago, Illinois | Woman's Soul Publishing; Calliope Publishing, Inc. | Irregular | ISSN 0097-8035 | |||
Quest: A Feminist Quarterly | 1974 | 1982 | Washington D.C. | Quest | ISSN 0098-955X OCLC 2242837 | ||||
Radical History Review | 1974 | Active | Durham, North Carolina | Duke University Press | 3 times a year | A scholarly journal. | ISSN 0163-6545, 1534-1453OCLC 985576992 | ||
Sibyl-Child | 1974 | Hyattsville, Maryland | Sibyl-Child Press, Inc. | 3 times a year | A Women's Arts and Culture Journal. | ISSN 0161-715X | |||
So's Your Old Lady | 1974 | 1979 | Minneapolis, Minnesota | Haymarket Press | Bi-monthly | A Lesbian and Feminist Journal | OCLC 917556863 | ||
Sunbury | 1974 | 1981 | New York, New York | Sunbury Press | ISSN 0271-3217 OCLC 1000821142 | ||||
Women & Literature | 1974 | 1988 | New York, New York; New Brunswick, New Jersey | Holmes & Meier Publishers | Irregular | A feminist scholarly journal founded by Janet Margaret Todd. Formerly known as Mary Wollstonecraft Newsletter (until 1974) and Mary Wollstonecraft Journal (until 1975) | ISSN 0147-1759 | ||
DYKE: A Quarterly | 1975 | 1978 | New York | Tomato Publications Ltd.; Liza Cowan and Penny House | Quarterly | A magazine by and about lesbian separatists. DYKE was an all woman publication. | ISSN 2573-4741OCLC 951614810 | [39][40][8] | |
Fighting Woman News | 1975 | 199? | New York, New York | Spectrum Resources | Quarterly | ISSN 0146-8812 OCLC 3054837 | |||
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies | 1975 | Active | Lincoln, Nebraska | University of Nebraska Press | 3 times a year | One of the earliest and longest-running publications on feminist and gender studies in the US. | ISSN 0160-9009, 1536-0334 | [41] | |
Gilt Edge | 1975 | 1977 | Missoula, Montana | Women's Resource Center; University of Montana | Annually? | A magazine of artists who are women | OCLC 42302751 | [42][43][8] | |
Primavera | 1975 | 2006 | Chicago, Illinois | Salsedo Press | Annual | A feminist magazine that focused on women's experiences. | ISSN 0364-7609 OCLC 1078795375 | ||
Radical Teacher | 1975 | Active | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | University of Pittsburgh. University Library System | 3 times a year | ISSN 1941-0832 (web); ISSN 0191-4847 (print) | |||
Signs | 1975 | Active | Chicago, Illinois | University of Chicago Press | Quarterly | "A Journal of Women in Culture and Society." A peer-reviewed feminist academic journal. | ISSN 0097-9740OCLC 21629549 | ||
Sojourner: The Women's Forum | 1975 | 2002 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Sojourner, Inc. | Monthly | A feminist periodical founded by a group of women from MIT. | ISSN 0191-8699 OCLC 4656277 | ||
Women Artist News | 1975 | 1998 | New York, New York | Midmarch Arts Press | Annual | ||||
Women talking, Women Listening | 1975 | 19?? | Dublin, California | Women Talking, Women Listening Press | Annually | Published women's poetry. | OCLC 5696938 | ||
Women's International Network News | 1975 | 2002 | Lexington, Massachusetts | Women's International Networks | ISSN 0145-7985 | ||||
Calyx | 1976 | Corvallis, Oregon | Calyx, Inc. | 3 times a year | A literary and art magazine dedicated to publishing the voices of women in the Northwest. | ISSN 0147-1627 | [5][8] | ||
Camera Obscura | 1976 | Active | Durham, North Carolina | Duke University Press | 3 times a year | A journal of feminism, culture, and media studies. | ISSN 0270-5346 | [44] | |
Equal Times | 1976 | 1984 | Boston, Chicago | Equal Times | Weekly | A feminist newspaper from Boston that wrote on equal pay and jobs for women. | OCLC 15158516 | ||
Houston Breakthrough | 1976 | 1981 | Houston, Texas | Breakthrough Publishing Co. | Monthly | [45] | |||
Lady-Unique-Inclination-of-the-Night | 1976 | 1983 | New Brunswick, New Jersey | Sowing Circle Press | Annual (issues were referred to as "cycles") | A journal of feminist art, history, and performance with a particular focus on women's spirituality) | OCLC 5348640 | ||
Lilith | 1976 | Active | New York, New York | Lilith Publications, Inc. | Quarterly | A Jewish Women's Quarterly. | ISSN 0146-2334 | [46] | |
Sinister Wisdom | 1976 | Active | Charlotte, North Carolina; Lincoln, Nebraska; Berkeley and Oakland, California | Sinister Wisdom, Inc. | 3 times a year | The longest operating lesbian journal to date. | ISSN 0196-1853 OCLC 3451636 | [47][48] | |
Through the Looking Glass | 1976 | 19?? | Seattle, Washington | Through the Looking Glass | Quarterly | A women's and children's prison newsletter. | OCLC 952387485, 7448204 | [49] | |
Womanart | 1976 | 1978 | New York, New York | Womanart Enterprises | Quarterly | OCLC 2531831 | [50][51] | ||
Women's Agenda | 1976 | 1979 | New York, New York | Women's Action Alliance, Inc. | Monthly or 10 a year | A politically radical magazine for women activists. | ISSN 0149-0532 | ||
WREE - View of Women | 1976 | 19?? | Grand Rapids, Michigan | Women for Racial and Economic Equality | Quarterly | A political newsletter. | ISSN 0892-3116OCLC 25792491 | [52] | |
Auntie Bellum: A New South Carolina Journal for Women | 1977 | Columbia, South Carolina | Quarterly | "Includes articles, profiles of outstanding women, poetry, reviews, with emphasis on regional interests and writers."[6] | OCLC 4815152 | [6][53] | |||
Azalea: A Magazine by Third World Lesbians | 1977 | 1983 | A quarterly magazine for Black, Latina, Asian, and Native American lesbians. | OCLC 919005098 | [54] | ||||
The Bright Medusa | 1977 | Unknown | Berkeley, California | Bright Medusa | Quarterly | A feminist literary journal. | OCLC 4139314 | [55][5] | |
Chrysalis | 1977 | 1980 | Los Angeles, California | Chrysalis | Quarterly | ISSN 0197-1867 OCLC 3128311 | [56] | ||
Conditions | 1977 | 1990 | Brooklyn, New York | Conditions, Inc. | Annual | A lesbian feminist literary magazine. | ISSN 2381-5620OCLC 646884046 | [57] | |
Feminist Japan | 1977 | Unknown | Tokyo, Japan; New York | Bimonthly | A Japanese feminist magazine. | OCLC 16104584 | |||
The Creative Woman | 1977 | 1992 | Illinois | Governors State University | Quarterly | ISSN 0736-4733 OCLC 698137157 | [58] | ||
Gaysweek | 1977 | 1979 | New York, New York | New York Gay News, Inc. | Weekly | Has been considered New York City's first mainstream gay and lesbian newspaper. | ISSN 0145-9104 | ||
Heresies | 1977 | 1993 | New York, New York | Heresies Collective | Irregular | A feminist art and politics journal. | ISSN 0146-3411 | ||
WomaNews | 1979 | Unknown | Gainesville, Florida; New York, New York | WomaNews Collective | Monthly | A radical feminist newspaper. | OCLC 11483997 | [59] | |
1980s | Gender Issues | 1980 | Active | New York, New York | Springer New York LLC | Quarterly | A feminist academic journal. | ISSN 1098-092XOCLC 49644179 | |
Maenad | 1980 | Gloucester, Massachusetts | Maenad Ltd. | Quarterly | A women's literary journal. | ISSN 0275-5629 | |||
Woman's Art Journal | 1980 | Active | Old City Publishing, Inc. | Biannually | A feminist art history journal | ISSN 0270-7993 OCLC 6497852 | |||
Womyn's Braille Press | 1980 | 1996 | Womyn's Braille Press | Irregular | A feminist organization that was operated by blind women. They circulated a newsletter for twelve years. | ||||
Blatant Image | 1981 | 1983 | Oregon | Blatant Image | Annual | ISSN 0277-8181 OCLC 7627805 | [60][61] | ||
Common Lives - Lesbian Lives | 1981 | 1996 | Iowa | Quarterly | ISSN 0891-6969 OCLC 8234014 | ||||
Frontiers | 1981 | 2016 | Southern California | Michael Turner | Weekly | Frontiers was Southern California's oldest and largest LGBT magazine. | |||
Onyx: Black Lesbian Newsletter | 1982 | Berkeley, California | Bimonthly | OCLC 69262012 | |||||
Trivia: Voices of Feminism | 1982 | Active | Amherst, Massachusetts | Trivia | Semi-annually | ISSN 2166-9082, 0736-928X | [62] | ||
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature | 1982 | Active | Tulsa, Oklahoma | University of Tulsa | Semi-Annually | ISSN 0732-7730 | |||
Bi Women Quarterly | 1983 | Active | Boston, Massachusetts | Quarterly | |||||
Hurricane Alice | 1983 | 1998 | Rhode Island | Hurrican Alice | Quarterly | ISSN 0882-7907 | |||
Women & Performance | 1983 | Active | New York | Routledge | 3 times a year | A journal of feminist theory. | ISSN 0740-770X | ||
Backbone: A Journal of Women's Literature | 1984 | 1988 | Seattle, Washington | Backbone Magazine, Inc. | Semi-annual | Originally Seal Press's "Backbone Series." | ISSN 0888-6520 | ||
Anamika | 1985 | 1987 | New York | Anamika Collective | OCLC 61120598 | ||||
Minnesota Women's Press | 1985 | Active | Minnesota | Minnesota Women's Press, Inc. | Monthly | ISSN 1085-2603 | |||
M/E/A/N/I/N/G | 1986 | 1997 | New York | M/E/A/N/I/N/G | Semi-annually | ISSN 1040-8576 | |||
1990s | Shamakami | 1990 | 1997 | San Francisco | Shamakami Collective | ISSN 1084-2446 OCLC 24646926 | |||
ROCKRGRL | 1995 | 2005 | San Mateo, California | ROCKRGRL | Bi-Monthly | ISSN 1086-5985 | |||
Femspec | 1999 | Active | Cleveland Heights, Ohio | Femspec | Semi-annually | ISSN 1523-4002 | |||
2000s | LTTR | 2001 | 2006 | New York | Printed Matter, Inc. | Annual | ISSN 1935-066X | ||
$pread | 2005 | 2011 | New York | The Feminist Press | Quarterly |
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