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FEMINISMO/S JOURNAL
Women's Studies Centre Journal
The University of Alicante's

Biannual publication
Published by the University of Alicante's Women Studies Centre with the collaboration of the Office of the Vice-President for Co-ordination & Communication

Editorial Board:
Director: Mónica Moreno Seco
Secretary: Helena Establier Pérez
Boardmembers Silvia Caporale Bizzini; Carmen Mañas Viejo; Clarisa Ramos Feijóo

Advisory Board:

Mabel Burín (Univ.Buenos Aires) Ana Torres (University of Valencia)

Angels Carabí (University of Barcelona) Marta Segarra (University of Barcelona)

Mar Esquembre (University of Alicante) Cristina Segura (Complutense University of. Madrid)

Mª José Frau (University of Alicante) July Seville (University of Valencia)

Mª Victoria Gordillo (Autonomous University of Madrid) Mª Carmen Simón (CSIC)

Marina Mayoral (Complutense University of Madrid) Ruth Teubál (University of Buenos Aires)

Nieves Montesinos (University of Alicante) Meri Torras (University of Barcelona)

Montserrat Palau (Rovira i Virgil University) Joaquín de Juan (University of Alicante)

Mª Dolores Ramos (University of Málaga) Albert Gras (University of Alicante)

MªDolores Reventós (University of Murcia) Eddy Gil de Mejía (University of Buenos Aires)

Carmen Riera (University of Barcelona)

Introduction

Silvia Caporale-Bizzini
( Director of the Women Studies Centre)

In Madrid, in November 2002, Carmen De Miguel, director of the Women's Institute at that time, gather together all academic representatives of Centres, Seminars and Institutes for Gender Studies in operation at Spanish Universities. Three intensive days at a Seminar titled “Balance y perspectivas de Los Estudios de las Mujeres y del Género. Hacia un nuevo programa de investigación”, were useful enough to encourage women's studies and conclusive enough to adopt reforms within the research scope, as for example, to have pre and postdoctoral fellowships to train researchers. There was clear evidence that, even acknowledging so great step forward during the last twenty years, there is still a long way to go since the monolithic university system does not supply the required development and implementation of Gender Studies within the Study Programmes or the promotion of researchers whose academic profiles enhances the gender approach. in other words, discussion is not only open but required to produce new views and theoretical development.

Thus, FEMINISMO/S was born in the University of Alicante's Women Studies Centre, from the willingness of offering a forum for the expression of interests and critical discussion within the scope of Gender Studies and feminist theory to the academic community and civil society. The creation of the journal answers to the need of examining -from theoretical and practical prospects- what power relations underlie discrimination due to gender reasons and how the latter are configured and materialized in daily life. Adding this view to our experience of daily matters means that the possibilities of understanding between individuals can be widened and, thus, establish the conditions for mutual understanding and the relaxation of conflicts which, along with other socio-cultural aspects, can result in an unbalanced relation of power between men and women.

Also, this project emerges from the constant need felt by female and male researchers integrated with the WSC, of relating cultural production with society and an ethical and committed dimension of our academic work. In this respect, we understand text production not only as the historical-cultural result of a certain period but also as a work in which the relationship between subjectivity and writing are materialized within the relationship between power/knowledge.

FEMINISMO/S has a multidisciplinary approach whose aim is to provide readers with the required tools to analyze the interpretation of gender relations within contemporary socio-cultural scope, although without leaving apart the historical approach. Some of our main aims are the following:

To raise questions such as: What is gender? What is sex? How to integrate it in our behaviour, language, representing systems? How can our society build and define the idea of difference?
To think and consider the circumstances of each individual's life through the ideas mentioned above .
To develop attitudes for reflection and critical view so that to understand daily experience of men and women within the scope of social, political and cultural structures.

With these starting points in mind, Feminismo/s was born as a permanently open forum for viewpoints exchange and the construction of a theoretical framework, free of essentialism and as wide as possible in the development of women's, gender studies as well as feminist theory.

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The journal is a biannual publication open not only to the researchers integrating the University of Alicante's Women Studies Centre, but to the academic community at large. The journal is organized by monographic issues coordinated by female researchers from several fields of study and, if required, in issues with miscellaneous articles.

Publications Standards

How to get the journal

PUBLISHED ISSUES

Number 1 (June 2003)

Feminismo y Multidisciplinariedad

Number 2 (December 2003)

Imagin/ando a la mujer

Number 3 (June 2004)

Mujer y participación política

Number 4 (December 2004)

Writing, Memoirs, Autobiography and History

Number 5 (June 2005)

Habitar / escribir / conquistar el espacio

Number 6 (December 2005)

Violencia estructural y directa: mujeres y visibilidad

Publication Standards of the FEMINISMO/S Journal
Feminismo/s is published on a biannual basis, and encourages contributions from researchers at the Centre for Women's Studies of the University of Alicante, as well as from the academic community as a whole. The journal is generally published in issues devoted to a single subject, although occasional issues containing articles on a range of subjects may also be published. Both the journal and the Centre for Women's Studies are multidisciplinary in nature.

EDITORIAL POLICY AND GUIDELINES

1.- All works should be original, and should be submitted both on a floppy disk containing a Microsoft Word file and in printed form. The name of the file and its author should be written on the disk label.

2.- Articles should be written in 12 pt Times New Roman font and with 1.5 line spacing.

3.- The title of the article should be centred on the page and written in 12 pt upper case letters. The name of the author should appear a few lines below the title and also be centred, in 10 pt upper case letters. The name of the university, institution or city should come just below this and be in 10 pt lower-case letters.

See the following example:

THE IMAGE OF WOMEN IN SPANISH CINEMA DURING THE TRANSITION
MARÍA ISABEL DURÁN PRIETO
University of Murcia

4.- Articles should be between 15 and 18 pages in length.

5.- The first line of each paragraph should be indented.

6.- Quotations in the text should be indented, enclosed in quotation marks and written in 10 pt letter size.

7.- Titles of cited books and journals should be written in italics. Titles of articles and chapters of books should be enclosed in quotation marks.

8.- Footnotes should appear at the bottom of the page, in 10 pt letter size and with single line spacing.

9.- Bibliographical references should always appear as footnotes and not in the body of the text. See the following model for citing books:

WELLDON, Estela V. :Madre, virgen, puta. Idealización y denigración de la maternidad. Madrid: Siglo XXI, 1993.

10.- Articles and chapters of books should be cited as in the following example:

O’CONNOR, Patricia. “Mujeres sobre mujeres: teatro breve español”. Anales de Literatura Española Contemporánea, 25 (2003), pp. 45- 76.
BENTOVIM, Arnold. “Therapeutic systems and settings in the treatment of child abuse”. En A.W. Franklin (comp.). The challenge of child abuse. New York: Academic Press, 2001, pp. 249-259.

11.- If a work has already been cited, its title is omitted in subsequent references, as follows:

2 MANERO, José. Op.cit., p. 345.

If different works by the same author are cited, then the title should be given in each reference:

6 MANERO, José. Los elementos químicos....
Op.cit., p. 345.

If the same work is cited several times in succession, both the title and author's name should be omitted and the following model adopted:

6 MANERO, José. Los elementos químicos....
Op.cit., p. 345.
7 Ibíd., p. 22.
8 Ibíd., p.35.

12.- Different sections of the text should be ordered using Arabic numerals (1,2,3, etc.) and section headings should be written in capital letters and bold type. Sub-sections should be numbered as follows: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc.; sub-section headings should be written in lower-case letters and bold type.

13.- Articles should be accompanied by an abstract of about 10 lines in Spanish and English, keywords in Spanish and English, and a short CV of the author (8 lines).

14.- Photographs and graphic items should be submitted on a CD-ROM or floppy disk, separate from the text, in TIF format and with an image quality of 300 dots per inch. They should be clearly labelled according to their position in the text.

15.- All contributions are evaluated anonymously by specialists of recognised prestige. These should be submitted with the author's postal and e-mail addresses. Works not accepted for publication may be returned to the author on request.
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