...these journals, but it is a small one. I came away from my research with a strong sense of the special contribution that Australian scholars of feminist and gender history could make to expanding and deepening the intellectual fields of the three journals. While recognising the importance of commanding as wide an Australian audience as possible for some work, I am compelled to encourage Australian scholars to speak to an international audience through these journals.

The Journal of Women's History began life in America in 1989. It is published by Johns Hopkins University Press and its two editors, Jean Allman and Antoinette Burton are based at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In fact, although its birthplace was Indiana University where Christie Farnham, the journal's founding editor, was employed in 1989, the current book reviews editor and the associate editors are also on staff at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. It is clearly a US-based journal, and this is reflected in the contributors as well as the editors. Although many contributors work beyond the field of US history, most are based in institutions in the US. The journal's statement of purpose is as follows:

Journal of Women's History is the first journal devoted exclusively to the international field of women's history. It does not attempt to impose one feminist 'line' but recognizes the multiple perspectives captured by the term 'feminisms'. Its guiding principle is a belief that the divide between 'women's history' and 'gender history' can be, and is, bridged by work on women that is sensitive to the particular historical constructions of gender that shape and are shaped by women's experience.

Women's History Review is slightly younger. It began its life in 1992 under the editorship of the University of Portsmouth's Jane Purvis, who continues this work today. The assistant editors are based in the UK, the USA and Australia, and include Melbourne University's Joy Damousi. The journal is published by Taylor and Francis. Its statement of purpose reads:

Women's History Review is a major international journal whose aim is to provide a forum for the publication of new scholarly articles in the rapidly expanding field of women's history. The time span covered by the journal includes the 19th and 20th centuries as well as earlier times. The journal seeks to publish contributions from a range of disciplines (for example, women's studies, history, sociology, cultural studies, literature, political science, anthropology and philosophy) that further feminist knowledge and debate about women and/or gender relations in history. The Editors welcome a variety of approaches from people from different countries...

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