About the Journal

Title: About Gender. International Journal of Gender Studies

ISSN: 2279-5057

Periodicity: semi-annually (2 Issues per year); special issues occasionally released

Year of creation: 2012

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

Average time between submission and publication: 26 weeks

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

Evaluation procedures

• Double-blind peer review for "Thematic Articles" and the "Open Section". Each submission must be made through the OJS platform (accessible by clicking on “Login” at the top right of the homepage) and is reviewed by two external referees selected by the issue editors. The editorial team is responsible for sending the anonymous reviews to the author. The final decision regarding the acceptance of the manuscript—after any required revisions—rests with the issue editors. If the article is accepted, the author will receive an email notification and will be asked to resubmit the manuscript including their name, email address, and institutional affiliation, in order to start the copyediting process. Once published, the author will receive a second email confirming that the article is online.
• Editorial review (not peer reviewed) for all the other sections (Editorial, Round Table, Portraits, Incursions, Work in Progress, Transforma(c)tions, Annexes and Reviews). All submissions must be made through the OJS platform (accessible by clicking on “Login” at the top right of the homepage) and are evaluated by the editorial team. The section editors are responsible for sending the anonymous reviews to the author via the OJS platform and for deciding whether to accept the contribution, also taking into account any required revisions.
  If the article is accepted, the author will receive an email notification and will be asked to resubmit the manuscript including their name, email address, and institutional affiliation, in order to start the copyediting process. Once published, the author will receive a second email confirming that the article is online.

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Focus and scope

Although gender studies have been established on the international academic scene for decades, they continue to face challenges 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. To stimulate an ever-updated debate about current studies, reviews of national and international publications and doctoral thesis presentations will also be welcomed.

Open Access Statement

About Gender adheres to the principles of Open Access, making all our published articles freely accessible online without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author in accordance with the applied license (CC BY 4.0)"

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 license, which allows content to be shared and reused and provides authorship to the authors and the journal.

Notice on Licensing Terms: due to a clerical error, the issues Vol. 12/no. 24 (2023), Vol. 12/no. 23 (2023), Vol. 11/no. 22 (2022), and Vol. 11/no. 21 (2022) display an incorrect license on the PDF versions of the articles. We confirm that the correct license for all articles published in these issues is the CC BY license, as correctly stated on each article’s webpage. We also clarify that all articles published since the journal’s first issue (Vol. 1/no. 1, 2012) are distributed under the CC BY license.

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Dissemination

Genova University Press (GUP) guarantees maximum accessibility through open access to the "GUP Journals" on the publisher's website and the Riviste GUP page.

About Gender can also be accessed via the Unopertutto UniGe discovery tool. UniGe authors can publish their About Gender articles in the institutional green Open Access repository of research products IRIS UniGe.

Publication Ethics

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

Anti-plagiarism

About Gender uses the anti-plagiarism software Magister by Compilatio.net to check all submitted papers.