n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal

Feminist art magazines or women artists magazines and newsletters

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There is a long history of feminist art journals and women artists' magazines, of which n.paradoxa is just one. Below you can find information about early and current journals and magazines, some of which have stopped publication. Where known, a website link is provided, for you to find out more from their site or an archive of past issues.

.dpi: Feminist Journal of Art and Digital Culture (Canada) 2004 - current

SALT (UK) 10 volumes to 2019. Editors: Saira Harvey, Hannah Regel, Thea Smith and Jala Wahid 2012 - 2019

MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture (Sweden, UK, international) -

M.A.M.A: Mothers are Making Art (USA) 2015 -

Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology () 16 issues, 2012-2020, born out of the Fembot Collective. On hiatus after no.16. Volumes stored in open access at University of Oregon. -

Amazon Quarterly (USA) A lesbian feminist arts quarterly. Available on JSTOR 1972 - 1975

A Woman's Thing (USA) We are a publication dedicated to reshaping society’s ideas of “women’s things” within arts and culture. At present, gender and racial parity have not been reached when it comes to publishing, museum acquisitions, gallery showings, and film and theater works. We want to change that trajectory and tell the stories of women that never get told. We are finding and highlighting the women who have influenced our present and women who are making history today. New York based online magazine. 2015 -

An.Schlaege (Austria) a feminist cultural journal 2000 - current

Art Verve: online journal on women's art (UK) (2015-2016) 6 issues published by the South London Women Artists on issu. No longer archived. 2015 - 2017

At the Crossroads: Black Women's Art Magazine (Canada) 1992 - 1997

Calyx: Art and Literature (USA) 1975 -

Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies (USA) 1976 - current

Chrysalis: A Magazine of Women's Culture (USA) Cumulative index available 1977 - 1980

Creative Woman (USA) 1977 - 1994

Curse no.1, (2017?) 2,(2019) 3, (2021) (Japan) 2017 -

Eau de Cologne (Germany, International) 3 issues published in Köln: Monika Sprüth Galerie, 1985-1989. Each published in conjunction with group exhibitions of women artists at her gallery held from November 15 through December 12, 1985 and November 13-29, 1987 at Monika Sprüth Galerie. Restaged in 2014-2016 in different exhibitions. 1985 - 1989

Erreakzioa-Reaccion (Spain) Article about the journal Founders: Yolanda de los Bueis, Estibaliz Sadaba and Azucena Vieites 1994 - 2000

Female Sequences: frauen lesben kulturHEFTig (Austria) This is a write-up about the journal in KUPF. 1998 - 2002

Feminist Art Journal (USA) This journal is now available in the Jstor collection: Independent Voices 1972 - 1977

Feminist Art News (FAN) (UK) 1980 - 1993

Feminist art practices and research: Cosmos (UK, international) Currently exists only as call for papers. 2025 -

Femme Art/Review (Canada, international) Femme Art Review (FAR) is a publication that provides space for both women and LGBTQ2S+ voices. Started from blog, now in print, as of 2025, 3#. 2020 -

FEMSPEC (USA) an interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to critical and creative works interrogating gender in the realms of science fiction, fantasy, surrealism, magical realism and the supernatural 1999 - current

FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur (Germany) the German language feminist art history journal, previously known as Frauenkunstwissenschaft 1987 - current

FRAZ: Frauenzeitung (Switzerland) 1976 - 2009

Geekgirl (Australia) former website journal, now continuing as a blog 1993 - 2010

Girls Like Us (The Netherlands, UK, USA) -

Helicon Nine: A Journal of Women's Art and Letters (USA) 1979 - 1989

Heresies (USA) 1977 - 1996

Heresies vol 26_IdiomA (USA, Russia) special issue collaboration in English (US) and Russian between these two journals 1992 - 1992

Hot Flashes (USA) 1991 - 1993

Hurricane Alice (USA) 1983 - 1985

Image and Gender (Japan) 2000 - 2007

Kassandra: Feministische Zeitschrift fur die VisuellenKunste (USA) (one issue only) 1978 -

Leggere Donna (Italy) 1980 - current

Lesbo (Slovenia) a Slovenian lesbian, political, social and cultural quarterly, published by the lesbian group, SKUC-LL, until issue 15/16 in 2002. 1997 - 2005

Lichtblick (Germany) 1988 - 1995

LIP (see also 2013 anthology by Ziherl in booklist) (Australia) 1976 - 1984, 1995

LTTR (USA) 2002 - 2008

M/E/A/N/I/N/G online (2002-2016) (USA) Edited by Susan Bee and Mira Schor, the journal is a continuation in a different form of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: a journal of contemporary art issues, (1986-1996) and archived at Beinecke Library,Yale University 2002 - 2016

Made By Women Zine | Issue 4: LGBTQ Women Artists () 2019 -

Make (formerly Women's Art Magazine) (UK) 1996 - 2002

M-arte Y Cultura Visual (Mujeres Artes Visuales (MAV) publication - online and PDFs) (Spain) 2012- -

Matriart: A Canadian Feminist Art Journal (Canada) 1990 - 1998

Meridians (USA) interdisciplinary journal that offers a forum for scholarship and creative work by and about women of color in United States and international contexts 2000 - current

Milk Art Journal (3 issues) (The Netherlands) 2023 - 2023

Ms.Use (Israel) 2009 - ?

n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal (UK) 40 volumes 1998 - 2017

Nexus: Theory & Practice in Contemporary Women's Photography (UK) 1997 - 2000

Petunia (France) Issue 1-7 only, 2009-2016, then 2 exhibitions (2013-2014) and symposia 2009 - 2016

Ruimte (The Netherlands) 1984 - 1996

Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal (USA) 1976 -

Studies in the Maternal, MaMSIE (UK) Studies in the Maternal is an online journal by MaMSIE (Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics) is a network based at the Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, that creates spaces for interdisciplinary conversations about motherhood and the maternal more broadly.Visual Arts is considered alongside psychoanalysis, sexuality studies, literature, film. -

TENDER: Quarterly Journal made by Women (UK) Tender was established in April 2013 as a platform for work by female-identified writers and artists. Website no longer active. Facebook record indicates 8 issues as PDFs by 2016. 2013 - 2016

The Blatant Image (USA) 1981 - 1983

The Journal of Women and Performance (USA) 1983 - current

Visual Culture and Gender (USA) Annual journal, first online then in print from 2006. 2006 -

Washington Women's Art Center News (USA) newsletter of Washington Women's Art Center 1978 - 1986

We are Orlando (UK) 4 print issues, journal continued until 2018 online.... 2014 -

Woman Tide (USA) 1980 - 1981

Womanart (USA) 1976 - 1978

Woman's Art Journal (USA) 1980 - current

Womanspace Journal (USA) v.1, no.1-3 1973 - 1973

Women Artists Slide Library Journal (UK) 1985 - 1990

Women in Art 278 Magazine (USA) quarterly visual profiling of selected women artists and their work. Last volume, Jan 2018. 2013 - 2018

Women in Photography (USA) replaced by f2 eZine online 1980 - 2017

Women in the Arts (USA) quarterly from National Museum for Women in the Arts, (1983-present), now published on issuu 1983 - -present

Women in the Arts Newsletter (USA) (formerly Women in the Arts Bulletin), irregular mainly annual publication since 2010. 1971 - current

Womenart (USA) 1976 - 1978

Women's Art Forum of Victoria, annual (Australia) 1978 - 1980

Women's Art Magazine (formerly Women Artists Slide Library Newsletter) (UK) 1990 - 1995

Women's Art News Book Review/ Women Artists' News (USA) Edited by Cynthia Navaretta of Midmarch Arts Press. Partially stored on 1978-1992 Jstor 1975 - 1998

Women's Art Register Bulletin (Australia) 1988 - 1995

Women's Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM) Journal (USA) 1980 - 2010

Women's Arts News (USA) a monthly newsletter from Women's Studio Center Inc., New York 1997 - 2007

Yiara Online (Canada) an annual student-run publication from Concordia that discusses feminist art and art history 2013 -