Aims and Scope
Politics & Gender is an agenda-setting journal that publishes the highest quality scholarship on women, gender, and politics. It aims to represent the full range of questions, issues, and approaches on gender and women across the major subfields of political science, including comparative politics, international relations, political theory, and U.S. politics. The editors welcome studies that address fundamental questions in politics and political science from a gender perspective, as well as those that interrogate and challenge standard analytical categories and conventional methodologies.
Members of the Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association receive access to the journal as a benefit of membership. After December 2022, all issues of the Journal will be published online-only.
Types of Article
The journal accepts the following types of article:
- Research Article*
- Book Review
- Symposium Review*
- Thematic Review*
- Notes from the Field*
- Critical Perspective Introduction
- Critical Perspectives Article
Information on word limits and journal review procedures for each article type can be found under Preparing Your Materials.
* If publishing Gold Open Access, all or part of the publication costs for these article types may be covered by one of the agreements Cambridge University Press has made to support open access.
Peer Review Process
For information on the journal’s peer review process, please click here.