Aims and Scope
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to interdisciplinary and critical feminist scholarship. The journal explores gender in its diverse identities, expressions, and lived experiences, while recognizing its intersections with race, ethnicity, culture, class, sexuality, migration, nationality, and other dimensions of social life.
As a transnational platform, Wagadu fosters dialogue on the complex realities, challenges, and contributions of women and marginalized communities across different social, cultural, and political contexts. The journal is particularly committed to amplifying perspectives from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Western Asian, and other regions that have often been underrepresented in global academic conversations.
Wagadu welcomes original research, theoretical contributions, methodological innovations, critical reflections, and interdisciplinary approaches that advance understanding of gender and its intersections with broader structures of power and inequality. The journal encourages scholarship that engages with contemporary debates on feminism, social justice, decolonization, transnationalism, and social change.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Gender and feminist studies
- Intersectionality
- Race, ethnicity, and identity
- Migration, mobility, and transnationalism
- Decolonial and postcolonial perspectives
- Culture, politics, and social change
- Gender, work, and care
- Violence, rights, and social justice
- Women's movements and activism
- Global and comparative gender issues
Through both themed special issues and general issues, Wagadu seeks to promote innovative scholarship and meaningful dialogue among researchers, practitioners, and activists working across geographical, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries.
Wagadu is indexed in SCOPUS and is committed to making high-quality feminist scholarship freely accessible to readers worldwide.