What’s New at Schaffer Library

Black Women, Gender & Families

Black Women, Gender & Families analyzes, develops, and furthers Black Women’s Studies paradigms. It centers the study of Black women and gender within the critical discourses of history, the social sciences, and the humanities. Second, this journal provides an Africana/Black Studies and Women’s Studies cross-field and interdisciplinary venue for Black womanist and Black feminist theories, methodologies, and analyses. Third, it more fully integrates gender as an analytic category, and strengthens Black Women’s Studies as a paradigm for studying black women, gender, families, and communities especially policy-related issues within the broader disciplines of Black Studies and Women’s Studies. Fourth, this journal provides the space for interdisciplinary, comparative/transnational studies of Global Africa/the African Diaspora and other women, families, and communities of color, using Black Women’s Studies frameworks.

BWGF is an official journal of the National Council for Black Studies in collaboration with the African American Studies and Research Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The journal is peer-reviewed, and is published biannually by the University of Illinois Press. NCBS membership is not a prerequisite for manuscript submission or publication, but authors are encouraged to join.

http://muse.jhu.edu/content/alerts/journals/black_women_gender_and_families

Studies in American Jewish Literature

Studies in American Jewish Literature (SAJL), the official journal of the Society for the Study of American Jewish Literature, publishes peer reviewed scholarly articles, book reviews, occasional poetry, and short stories dealing with aspects of the Jewish experience in literature.

For more information on the journal:

muse.jhu.edu/content/alerts/journals/studies_in_american_jewish_literature

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies

In 2009 the innovative Journal of Literary Disability is moving to Liverpool University Press under the new title Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. It will continue to focus on the literary representation of disability , but cultural studies will now be added to the multidisciplinary mix. With an editorial board of 50 internationally renowned scholars, the journal is central to the literary disability movement that is changing the face of literary studies on a global scale.

For more information on the journal:

http://muse.jhu.edu/content/alerts/journals/journal_of_literary_and_cultural_disability_studies

** From the Association Le Mouvement Social:

Le mouvement social

Le Mouvement Social addresses recent developments in social history. The journal’s initial focus on the history of collective movements and professional organizations has since been broadened to include other subfields within social history and beyond: the history of labor and the economy; the social history of politics, public policies and the state; cultural history and the history of representations; the history of gender relations, immigration and social mobility. The journal covers the contemporary period broadly defined, from the first years of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first. The journal’s objective is to promote a pluralist social history, located at the intersection with sociology, economics, ethnography, anthropology, demography, political science and legal studies. Fostering interdisciplinary dialogue is one of its core missions. We welcome article submissions dealing with all geographical and cultural fields. Keeping with recent historiographical developments, Le Mouvement Social encourages comparative studies as well as studies varying the scale of observation between the local and the global. Finally, through its “Controversies” section Le Mouvement Social remains a space for contest and debate on a large range of social-scientific approaches and historiographical renewals.

For more information on the journal:

http://muse.jhu.edu/content/alerts/journals/le_mouvement_social

** From the Société Guilhem IX:

Tenso

TENSO: Bulletin of the Société Guilhem IX publishes articles on any aspect of Occitan studies, including literature, language, linguistics, and music, and prints scholarly essays, critical editions, translations, original verse in Occitan, book reviews, announcements, and bibliographical information. While English is the primary language, it also accepts items in French, Occitan, Catalan, Spanish, Italian, and German.

For more information on the journal:

http://muse.jhu.edu/content/alerts/journals/tenso

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (IJFAB) is committed to sustaining and expanding the network of scholars in feminist bioethics. The journal is:

• Multidisciplinary and reflects the diversity of methods and approaches within feminist bioethics;
• International and represents the global constituency of FAB and feminist scholarship in bioethics;
• Committed to exploring the implications of scholarship for public policy;
• Committed to exploring how gender intersects with other social determinants of privilege and discrimination, including race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and physical and mental ability;
• Committed to exploring the relation of feminist theory to feminist pedagogy and feminist practice across a wide variety of domains related to health.

For more information on the journal

The following journals, previously announced as joining Project MUSE, are now online:
** From the University of Illinois Press:

JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology

JEGP focuses on Northern European cultures of the Middle Ages, covering Medieval English, Germanic, and Celtic Studies. The word “medieval” potentially encompasses the earliest documentary and archeological evidence for Germanic and Celtic languages and cultures; the literatures and cultures of the early and high Middle Ages in Britain, Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavia; and any continuities and transitions linking the medieval and post-medieval eras, including modern “medievalisms” and the history of Medieval Studies.

For more information on the journal:
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/alerts/journals/journal_of_english_and_germanic_philology

** From the La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures:

La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

La corónica is a refereed journal published every spring and fall by the Modern Language Association’s Division on Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. It publishes groundbreaking articles written in English or Spanish on topics in medieval Spanish cultural studies, literature, and historical linguistics. Devoted to Hispanomedievalism in its broadest sense, La corónica also welcomes scholarship that transcends the linguistic and/or cultural borders of Spanish and explores the interconnectedness of those languages and cultures that coexisted in medieval Iberia. In addition to articles, La corónica features book reviews, reports, discussion forums, professional notices, and special thematic issues.

For more information on the journal:
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/alerts/journals/la_coronica

The following journals, previously announced as joining Project MUSE, are now online:

** From the University of Toronto Press:

Histoire social/Social history

Founded in 1968, Histoire sociale - Social History has become a leading publication in socio-historical research. Hs-SH publishes articles, research notes, book reviews, and other material that contribute to social history in Canada and elsewhere. The journal is interested in all types of social phenomena - cultural, political, economic, or demographic - without methodological, temporal or geographic restrictions. The journal gives priority to studies that explicitly integrate different subfields of social history and are innovative in sources, method or interpretation.

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The following journal, previously announced as joining Project MUSE, is now online:

** From the The Franciscan Institute:

Franciscan Studies is an annual scholarly review, published by The Franciscan Institute at Saint Bonaventure University, and containing articles in the major languages of the western world on Franciscan history, sources, philosophy and theology.

For more information on the journal

The following journal, previously announced as joining Project MUSE, is now online:

** From the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies:

Southeast Asian Affairs

Southeast Asian Affairs, which has been produced since 1974, is an annual review of significant trends and developments in the region. The emphasis is on ASEAN countries but important developments in the broader Asia-Pacific region are not ignored. The publication seeks to provide readable and easily understood analyses of major political, strategic, economic and social developments within the region.

Project MUSE invites users to view their latest research tool: a vodcast. The vodcast, “Research MUSEings Vodcasts: Discovering Linked Subject Headings,” is a quick tutorial about the benefits of using MUSE’s linked subject headings in your research.

The MUSE vodcast runs just over three minutes in length. Users can learn what subject headings are, where to find them in MUSE, and how they help locate articles specific to a research topic.

On the MUSE website, find the link for the vodcast in the Training Materials section under the Tools & Resources >>Training and Usage Guides

The following journals, previously announced as joining Project MUSE, are now online:

** From the University of Pennsylvania Press:

Dissent

Dissent is a quarterly publication of politics and culture which ranks among the handful of political journals read most regularly by U.S. intellectuals. A magazine of the left, Dissent is also a magazine of independent minds welcoming the clash of strong opinions.

Each issue features reflective articles about politics in the U.S., incisive social and cultural commentary, plus the most sophisticated coverage of European politics you’ll find anywhere outside of Europe.

For the Table of Contents:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/dissent/toc/dss.56.1.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/content/alerts/journals/dissent/toc/dss.56.1.html

** From the Indiana University Press:

Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Perspectives

Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts is a joint publication of The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Office of Minority Affairs, both at The Ohio State University, and Indiana University Press. It publishes comprehensive investigations of sustained and emergent themes in the global field of race and ethnic studies and promotes scholarship that robustly investigates the dynamics of racialized operations of power, its impediments to and facilitation of democratic practice and policy, and analysis of mechanisms by which different human destinies are intertwined. All issues are topical and feature a classic field piece, which anchors each issue’s theme, and original essays that map the evolution of scholarly engagement with the theme.

For the Table of Contents:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/race_ethnicity/toc/rac.2.1.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/content/alerts/journals/race_ethnicity/toc/rac.2.1.html