Dear JIWS authors: We have closed our portal for new submissions so that we can review over 50 submissions that we received this month. Please do not submit over email as we are not accepting any new submissions at this time. The submission portal will be reopened in the last few months of 2026. If you have an article or creative piece that fits the topic of one of our special issues in process, please submit directly to those special issue editors: see the "Call for Papers" page on our left menu for the topics and submission details. Book and film reviews can also be submitted at any time to our book and film review editors--see the "Policies/Submission" tab on the left menu for their contact information.

We are also pleased to share that the JIWS has recently been elevated to a Q2 rating. This is good news for authors since it means that your published work is being cited more often, due to the quality of your work. To sustain that rating, we are accepting fewer articles while still maintaining our commitment to feminist care and mentorship and fostering equity by opening up publishing opportunities to scholars in the Global South. While some higher rates of rejection are inevitable for future submissions, we also promise to maintain our core principles. Thank you for your continued readership and support of the Journal of International Women's Studies!