A Brief History of the Journal
“Women & Performance – two words that trouble each other, prod each other, pose each other, prompt each other – title an important and influential journal that promotes incisive scholarly and performative inquiry into gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and all the pre and post of identity formation, deformation, and reformation in the social.”
- Rebecca Schneider
Women & Performance was founded in 1983 by graduate students in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. The journal publishes interdisciplinary feminist scholarship on performance, broadly construed.
Since its inception the journal has operated as a feminist collective. Faculty and graduate students from a variety of disciplines volunteer their time and collectively edit each issue of Women & Performance. The Editorial Collective meets monthly in New York City, and is open to anyone interested in participating. Please contact us if you would like more information.
After self-publishing for 23 years, Women & Performance was acquired by Routledge, Taylor & Francis. With each issue we continue our mission of extending and reformulating notions of gender and performance.
