About the Journal

Title: About Gender. International Journal of Gender Studies

ISSN: 2279-5057

Periodicity: at least two issues per year

Year of creation: 2013

Publisher: Genova University Press (GUP) - University of Genoa

Evaluation procedures: double-blind peer review

Average time between submission and publication: 26 weeks

Languages in which the journal accepts manuscripts: English, Italian, Spanish

Focus and scope

Though gender studies have been established on the international academic scene for decades, they still have trouble with institutional recognition in Italy. Courses, examinations, and programmes that could formally validate this field of study are in short supply, and it is only thanks to personal initiatives and efforts that the so-called ‘gender question’ has been allotted space for public discussion. Thus, the Italian contribution to gender studies has failed to find an adequate institutional collocation, even within the potentially fertile humanities area.

For these reasons, About Gender has been set up. Its main objective is to constitute a concrete and visible point of reference for scholars conducting research about gender from within and without academia. The journal’s interdisciplinary vocation is meant to support and value dialogue and contamination among different interpretative approaches and analytical perspectives. It aims to promote an international debate based on the following:

• Gathering and furthering stimuli to build a fruitful debate on gender studies;
• Spreading a gender culture that could combine historical memory and interpretative innovation;
• Overcoming disciplinary barriers;
• Fostering intergenerational dialogue and valuing young researchers’ contributions;
• Promoting the development and diffusion of as yet underexplored trends within our cultural and academic context, such as queer and masculinities studies.

Therefore, About Gender adopts a permanent dialogue and confrontation perspective, favouring openness and diversity. Reviews of national and international publications and doctoral thesis presentations will also be welcomed to stimulate an ever-updated debate about current studies.

Open Access Statement

About Gender adheres to the principles of Open Access, making all our published articles freely accessible online.

Publication fees

About Gender does not charge any publication or submission fees to authors, and no remuneration will be due by the journal to the authors.

Copyright and licensing

About Gender acquires the copyright of the published articles and releases them under the CC BY 4.0 licence, which allows content to be shared and reused, providing authorship to the authors and the journal. No accepted text may be published elsewhere without prior and explicit agreement with the journal's editors. The journal will not remunerate the authors. The author can present their text elsewhere if the article is not accepted.

Dissemination

Genova University Press (GUP) guarantees maximum accessibility in open access to the "GUP Journals":

• on the publisher's website on the "Riviste GUP" page;
• in the institutional green Open Access repository of research products "IRIS Unige";
• in the GLAM Open Access repository of "Doge" digital objects;
• by facilitating access to its journals via the discovery tool "Unopertutto Unige".

Publication Ethics

About Gender follows the COPE’s Codes of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines (http://publicationethics.org/).