# Woman's Art Journal > Five decades of feminist art-historical scholarship - Canonical URL: https://womansartjournal.org/ - Language: en-US - Generated: 2026-08-16 ## Pages - [About](https://womansartjournal.org/about-2/): WAJ is the standard-bearer in feminist art-historical scholarship. －Dr. Jessica Roscio, Director and Curator, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts The Woman’s Art Journal, or WAJ, has been… - [Contact us](https://womansartjournal.org/about-2/contact-us/): [wpforms id="8663"] - [Editorial Board](https://womansartjournal.org/about-2/editorial-board/): Co-Editors-in-ChiefJoan Marter and Aliza Edelmanemail Book Reviews EditorMelissa L. Mednicovemail Editorial BoardNorma BroudeClaudia CalirmanTherese DolanBetsy FahlmanMary D. GarrardPia… - [Editors](https://womansartjournal.org/about-2/editors/): Co-Editors-in-ChiefJoan Marter and Aliza Edelmanemail Joan Marter Co-editor Joan M. Marter is Distinguished Professor Emerita at Rutgers University. A recipient of numerous prestigious honors… - [Guidelines for Contributors](https://womansartjournal.org/about-2/for-contributors/): Please follow contributor guidelines here (PDF) and below for endnote style and photographic materials. Editorial Policies Woman’s Art Journal, a semiannual periodical published in May and November… - [History](https://womansartjournal.org/about-2/history/): The Woman’s Art Journal was founded in 1980 by the feminist scholar Dr. Elsa Honig Fine. As editor and publisher of WAJ, Fine directed every aspect of the pioneering journal, working in editorial… - [Partners and Other Recommended Resources](https://womansartjournal.org/partners-and-other-recommended-resources/): The Woman's Art Journal encourages you to visit the websites of these other valuable feminist art-historical organizations and groups. The Feminist Institute documents feminist contributions to… - [Privacy Policy](https://womansartjournal.org/privacy-policy-2/): Updated December 22, 2022 Personal identification information We may collect personal identification information from Users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when Users visit our… - [Terms of Use](https://womansartjournal.org/terms-of-use/): Last updated December 22, 2018 AGREEMENT TO TERMS These Terms of Use constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity (“you”) and Woman's Art… ## Posts - [Spring/Summer 2026 issue now available](https://womansartjournal.org/2026/06/29/spring-summer-2026-issue-now-available/): WAJ’s Spring/Summer issue interrogates systems of knowledge that inform our ways of organizing societies, collections, and visual theories. - [Fall/Winter 2025 issue now available](https://womansartjournal.org/2025/12/09/fall-winter-2025-issue-now-available/): The precarity of women’s artistic labors, in their pursuit of careers and economic and sexual freedoms, takes center stage in our Fall/Winter issue. - [WAJ UnBoxxed: Interview with Anne Healy](https://womansartjournal.org/2026/05/12/waj-unboxxed-interview-with-anne-healy/): Lila Gould is in conversation with Anne Healy about her career as a sculptor and educator, her photographs and documentation of her impermanent sculptures, and how she defines public art and its ties… - [WAJ UnBoxxed: Interview with Marsha Pels](https://womansartjournal.org/2026/02/05/waj-unboxxed-interview-with-marsha-pels/): Siona Wilson talks with Marsha Pels about her evolution as a pioneering feminist sculptor, her artistic mentors, and her engagement with political violence, past and present. - [Spring/Summer 2025 issue now available](https://womansartjournal.org/2025/06/26/spring-summer-2025-issue-now-available/): The lived experience is the unifying concept of Woman’s Art Journal’s Spring/Summer 2025 issue. - [WAJ UnBoxxed: The Oral Histories Archives Project of Woman’s Art Journal](https://womansartjournal.org/2025/09/18/waj-unboxxed-the-oral-histories-archives-project-of-womans-art-journal/): Introducing WAJ UnBoxxed, our oral histories archives project, edited by Helena Shaskevich. - [WAJ UnBoxxed: Interview with Copper Giloth](https://womansartjournal.org/2025/09/18/waj-unboxxed-interview-with-copper-giloth/): Helena Shaskevich, WAJ’s inaugural Interviews Editor, conducts a conversation with Copper Giloth about her pioneering work in computer animation and her distinguished contributions to the histories… - [BOOK REVIEW: Women Artists and Artisans in Venice and the Veneto, 1400–1750](https://womansartjournal.org/2025/04/01/book-review-women-artists-and-artisans-in-venice-and-the-veneto-1400-1750-reviewed-by-april-oettinger/): This collected volume marks a pioneering contribution to our understanding of early modern Venetian women visual artists, most of them painters but some working in embroidery, stone carving, or other… - [Call for proposals: “Mothers, Makers, Matrons,” Woman’s Art Journal at CAA CHI 2026](https://womansartjournal.org/2025/07/18/call-for-proposals-mothers-makers-matrons-womans-art-journal-at-caa-chi-2026/): Our second annual session will address topics of matronage, creative labor, and caregiving, to be held in Chicago, Feb. 18–21, 2026. - [Fall/Winter 2024 issue now available](https://womansartjournal.org/2024/11/14/fall-winter-2024-issue-now-available/): Several women featured in WAJ’s Fall/Winter issue share an interest in Mexico and its artists, and others determine to advocate for women’s rights as well as cultural and personal autonomy. - [On the Book Reviews Editor’s Desk, Final AP Edition: Recommending Books … and Saying Goodbye](https://womansartjournal.org/2025/02/07/recommending-books-and-saying-goodbye/): As I say farewell, please let me offer one more list of recently published feminist art-historical volumes to consider reviewing. Please email my fantastic successor, Dr. Melissa Mednicov… - [Spring/Summer 2024 issue now available](https://womansartjournal.org/2024/05/10/spring-summer-2024-issue-now-available/): The new issue explores the "womanist" perspective in the artistic lives of historical and contemporary Black women and lesbian/queer feminists. - [On the Book Reviews Editor’s Desk: July 2023](https://womansartjournal.org/2023/07/28/on-the-book-reviews-editors-desk-july-2023/): May I order you a complimentary review copy of a feminist art history book to enjoy this summer? You wouldn't need to submit the review until December! - [On the Book Reviews Editor’s Desk: February 2024](https://womansartjournal.org/2024/02/26/on-the-book-reviews-editors-desk-february-2024/): The book fair at the College Art Association annual conference was replete with great new volumes just waiting to be reviewed for our journal! I'd love to order you a free review copy of one of… - [On The Book Reviews Editor’s Desk: May 2024](https://womansartjournal.org/2024/05/18/on-the-book-reviews-editors-desk-may-2024/): In praise of the double (or even triple) review, which affords latitude for an especially thoughtful treatment of a single artist or of thematically connected subjects in relation to recent… - [Fall/Winter 2023 issue now available](https://womansartjournal.org/2023/12/01/fall-winter-2023-issue-now-available/): WAJ Fall/Winter 2023 recognizes global relationships, focusing on artists from varied origins, including women born in Iran, Cuba, Japan, and the US. - [WAJ tote bags have arrived!](https://womansartjournal.org/2024/02/08/waj-tote-bags-have-arrived/): You need an extra-large, well-made, stylish tote for all those heavy feminist art history books, right? - [Spring/Summer 2023 issue now available](https://womansartjournal.org/2023/05/19/spring-summer-2023-issue-now-available/): For WAJ’s Spring/Summer issue, the editors have assembled articles that retrieve the histories of fiercely ambitious, dedicated women artists. - [Free issue/subscription raffle courtesy of Art Herstory!](https://womansartjournal.org/2023/09/06/free-issue-raffle-courtesy-of-art-herstory/): We're delighted to announce that the feminist art history website and e-newsletter Art Herstory is partnering with us to offer a raffle for a free WAJ issue or subscription. Click below for how to… - [2022 Fall/Winter issue now available](https://womansartjournal.org/2022/12/21/2022-fall-winter-issue-now-available/): Our current issue celebrates the careers of women artists from the early to mid-twentieth century who have received limited recognition for their achievements in muralism, abstract painting, applied… - [On the Book Reviews Editor’s Desk: May 2023](https://womansartjournal.org/2023/05/18/on-the-book-reviews-editors-desk-may-2023/): Consider reviewing one of these important volumes foregrounding feminist-intersectional theory in relation to the history, making, and viewing of art. - [On the Book Reviews Editor’s Desk: March 2023](https://womansartjournal.org/2023/03/28/on-the-book-reviews-editors-desk/): Happy Women's [Art] History Month! - [Aliza Edelman named new co-editor; Alison Poe is new book reviews editor](https://womansartjournal.org/2022/01/03/aliza-edelman-named-new-co-editor-alison-poe-new-book-reviews-editor/): WAJ co-founder Margaret Barlow retires after forty-two years as innovator and copy editor. - [Photo album: CAA 2023 book fair booth](https://womansartjournal.org/2023/03/01/photo-album-caa-2023-book-fair-booth/): Highlights from a wonderful time staffing the journal's booth at the CAA annual conference in New York. - [On the Book Reviews Editor’s Desk: February 2023](https://womansartjournal.org/2023/02/24/on-the-book-reviews-editors-desk-february-2023/): You may observe a theme in this Valentine’s Day month’s suggestions…. - [We’re hosting the Pop Art & Beyond Book Launch at CAA!](https://womansartjournal.org/2023/01/31/were-hosting-the-_pop-art-beyond_-book-launch-at-caa/): Join us on February 17 at the WAJ book fair booth for a launch party. - [Will you be at CAA NY? WAJ will!](https://womansartjournal.org/2022/12/18/take-action-today/): Visit us at the 111th CAA Annual Conference in New York City, February 15-18, 2023. - [The 2022 Spring/Summer issue has arrived!](https://womansartjournal.org/2022/05/22/2022-spring-summer-issue-has-arrived/): Janet Culbertson, Inge Morath, Shinoda Tōkō, and Gwen John are featured in this issue. - [On the Book Reviews Editor’s Desk: January 2023](https://womansartjournal.org/2023/01/05/on-the-book-reviews-editors-desk-january-2023/): Highlights from our stack of new books awaiting review. ## Optional - [XML Sitemap](https://womansartjournal.org/wp-sitemap.xml): Machine readable index of every public URL. - [RSS Feed](https://womansartjournal.org/feed/): Latest published content. - [Privacy Policy](https://womansartjournal.org/privacy-policy-2/) - [Terms of Use](https://womansartjournal.org/terms-of-use/) ## Usage guidance - Respect robots.txt, authentication boundaries and applicable law. - Prefer summarising over verbatim reproduction of long content. - Attribute Woman's Art Journal when quoting or citing this content.