Women and Language Journal

Women and Language, an international interdisciplinary research periodical published by the Communication Department, is affiliated with the Organization for the Study of Communication Language and Gender; it has the mission of providing a feminist forum for those interested in communication, language and gender.

Women and Language seeks to stimulate dialogue and inquiry centering the questions of how gender is constructed and how the processes of difference, dichotomy and hierarchy are involved in such gender constructions. It aims to uncover the interconnections among sex, gender, race, class, and heterosexual hegemony, examining the role of symbolic communication, verbal and non verbal, in those processes and connections, attending especially to the impacts of masculinist paradigms in communication. As a periodical that is both newsletter and journal, Women and Language provides an outlet for descriptive research and theoretical speculation and welcomes submissions of completed research, essays, poetry, information about work in progress, bibliographical materials, and news.

The Organization for the Study of Communication Language and Gender shares many aims with Women and Language. OSCLG grew from a series of interdisciplinary conferences that began at Bowling Green State University in 1978. Since that time, it has sought to provide a forum for professional discussion, presentation of research and demonstration of creative projects in the areas of communication, language and gender. Members of the organization believe interaction across a wide spectrum of disciplines is needed to foster more insightful discussion of the issues of language, gender and communication. Similarly, OSCLG seeks to include contributions from teachers, consultants and practitioners as well as researchers.

Individual members of OSCLG receive a reduced rate for subscribing to Women and Language; a departmental membership in the OSCLG includes a subscription to Women and Language. Women and Language subscribers need not join OSCLG.

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Subscription Schedule (two issues per year):
Women and Language subscriptions without OSCLG membership:

  • Individuals-U.S., Canada, and Mexico $15.00 U.S.
  • Libraries-Institutions-U.S. $30.00 U.S.
  • Other International Individuals $25.00 U.S.
  • International Institutions $40.00 U.S.

Subscriptions without OSCLG membership are payable to Women and Language in check drawn on U.S. bank or international money order. Send to Dr. Anita Taylor, Executive Editor, Women and Language, Department of Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030.

  • OSCLG individual membership, U.S., including Women and Language $25.00
  • OSCLG individual membership, international, including Women and Language $30.00
  • OSCLG department membership, U.S., including Women and Language $30.00
  • OSCLG Membership without W & L subscription $10.00
  • OSCLG life individual membership, U.S., does not include Women and Language $150.00

OSCLG membership or renewals are payable to OSCLG, in check drawn on U.S. bank or international money order. Send to Dr. Judy Dallinger, Western Illinois University, Department of Communication, 1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455. Telephone: 309 298-1507. E-mail: dallingj@ccmail.wiu.edu. This membership includes Women and Language subscription.

Manuscript Submission

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