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Women & Language

A peer-reviewed journal that publishes original scholarly articles and creative work

covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender

Explore our current issue...

Volume 48, Issue 2
Fall 2025

with Articles on...

gender performance in tabletop role-playing games and gendered environmental attitudes communicated through lifestyle magazines.

a Forum on...

Black women scholars reclaiming identity 

and Book Reviews of...

Trans Technologies by Oliver L. Haimson

Women & Language embraces the scholarly freedoms of a computer-mediated and digitally-enabled world by publishing scholarly and creative work that may not be possible to disseminate through traditional print journals.
Submit to W&L

Contributions may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, and/or artistic. We invite submissions from scholars, students, activists, and practitioners at any stage of their careers and all appropriate research methodologies are welcome. Please direct all inquiries about the process to Editor, Shauna M. MacDonald, at editorwomenandlanguage@gmail.com.  

Subscribe to W&L

W&L publishes two issues per year, and subscriptions start at $25. 

The W&L Team

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Editor

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Shauna M. MacDonald
Cape Breton University
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Editorial Assistant

Elyssa Q. Albrecht
University of Louisville

Contact

Shauna M. MacDonald, PhD
Editor, Women & Language
editorwomenandlanguage@gmail.com

Department of Communication & Languages

Cape Breton University

1250 Grand Lake Road

Sydney, Nova Scotia

B1M 1A2

Canada

Women & Language is published by the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Cape Breton University (Nova Scotia, Canada) and housed in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Louisville. It is affiliated with the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG). For more about OSCLG, visit www.osclg.org.

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