Reviews of Peer-Reviewed Journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences
We give you the scuttlebutt on academic journals—aiding you in selecting the right journal for publication—in reviews that are sometimes snarky, sometimes lengthy, always helpful. Written by Princeton University graduate students and Wendy Laura Belcher.
Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
For those interested in publishing articles on the problematic of difference in literary, social, political, and social texts from a combined Continental philosophy and American politics of diversity perspective. Most articles “address the ways concepts and categories of difference—notably but not exclusively gender—operate within culture.” Articles in differences actually have much less (at least explicitly) to do with “feminist cultural studies” than the title implies. Rather than publishing continuously on what we often call “keywords” or specific “fields” in literary studies (e.g. Postcolonialism, African-American Studies, Disability Studies, etc.), this journal balances broad, theoretical articles with somewhat random, highly specific, and even obscure topics; articles tend to fall into one of these two categories (Theory or Obscure/Highly Specific), with an emphasis on the latter.
Most cited articles:
| No. of cites | Author | Title | Year Published |
| 139 | L Berlant | Cruel optimism | 2006 |
| 75 | MA Doane | The indexical and the concept of medium specificity | 2007 |
| 59 | T Gunning | Moving away from the index: Cinema and the impression of reality | 2007 |
| 58 | E Bernstein | The sexual politics of the “new abolitionism” | 2007 |
| 34 | L Abu-Lughod | Seductions of the “honor crime” | 2011 |
| 31 | MA Doane | Indexicality: Trace and Sign: Introduction | 2007 |
| 29 | J Benjamin | Two-way streets: Recognition of difference and the intersubjective third | 2006 |
| 28 | K Weil | A report on the animal turn | 2010 |
| 27 | C Mills | Normative violence, vulnerability, and responsibility | 2007 |
| 22 | A Cavarero, E Bertolino | Beyond ontology and sexual difference: an interview with the Italian feminist philosopher Adriana Cavarero | 2008 |
| 17 | J Butler | Reply from Judith Butler to Mills and Jenkins | 2007 |
| 17 | K Barad | On touching—The inhuman that therefore I am | 2012 |
| 16 | E Grosz | The practice of feminist theory | 2010 |
| 14 | R Wanzo | The era of lost (white) girls: On body and event | 2008 |
| 14 | EA Castelli | Persecution Complexes: Identity Politics and the “War on Christians” | 2007 |
| 14 | P Geimer | Image as trace: speculations about an undead paradigm | 2007 |
| 13 | E Freeman | Turn the beat around: Sadomasochism, temporality, history | 2008 |
| 13 | EA Povinelli | The woman on the other side of the wall: Archiving the otherwise in postcolonial digital archives | 2011 |
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