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ABOUT STRATEGIESSTRATEGIES is an online feminist scholarly journal. Its objectives are to promote feminist research, engage theoretical debates, and develop frameworks for analysis and action to create feminist change.
This bilingual journal establishes an interactive electronic space for ideas and exchange on strategic practices to achieve equality and social justice. Its discussion Forum is committed to thoughtful and substantial dialogue and to the strengthening of a network of feminist activists and researchers.
STRATEGIES is open to all feminist perspectives and theoretical orientations and welcomes various disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches. STRATEGIES is a dynamic site for local, national and international analysis and collaboration on theoretical, social, cultural and political issues.
STRATEGIES publishes in French and English. It intends to promote increased communication among francophone and anglophone feminists and to foster better knowledge of each others' work, experiences and approaches. Reflecting our diverse paths in fostering societal change, it aims to bridge intellectual and methodological traditions contained within linguistic boundaries and to make our work more available to each other.
The journal will feature texts and refereed articles to create a focus for an online Forum where readers are invited to post substantive comments. After a few months, each number will be reissued and archived with a selection of readers' comments and authors' replies. These comments will be considered an integral part of the publication.
Feminist activism and thought have come from a range of different languages, identities, perspectives, disciplines and points of action. STRATEGIES itself has been constructed by women collaborating from diverse standpoints. Our experience with cross-perspective dialogue has challenged us to work for solidarity - and even consensus - while also expressing our differences. We have discovered that our diversity is a significant resource for developing new feminist approaches. A better understanding of one another's intellectual work and practices is an important step towards a more nuanced and comprehensive knowledge of women's diverse realities, perspectives, alliances and strategies.
Envisioning new directions and reflecting on past efforts are critical to the development of feminist theories and strategies. This journal explores women's experiences of change, articulates feminist analyses, highlights women's relation to knowledge, and makes way for new discourses and practices.
STRATEGIES uses the Internet to create a collaborative enquiry among those who are committed to feminist work. In doing so, it contributes to redesigning scholarly exchange and dialogue among researchers and feminist activists. It facilitates the creation and circulation of feminist knowledge.
This electronic journal is in itself a strategy to bring about change by using the Web to strengthen feminist networks and to make feminist analysis and knowledge more widely available. Not only does it open a virtual space for sustained critical discussion on feminist change work, but it invites reflection on the strategic uses of these technologies to support our efforts. While an online journal does not overcome serious economic, social and linguistic access issues, it does increase the possibility of direct contact with each other as well as the presence and visibility of feminism to growing numbers who can use the Internet. STRATEGIES complements feminist print publications where materials may later reappear.
STRATEGIES is open to innovations and transformations that support and improve its quality and reach.
The initial Editors of STRATEGIES are members of two research teams: the Learning to Change Network and PAR-L (Policy-Action-Research List). The journal developed through the partnership of these two teams.
Learning to Change Network was established in 1994 with a Women and Change Strategic Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The Network fosters collaborative research processes to describe and analyse feminist change work in universities and the Canadian and Quebec research policy sectors. It was initiated to document and reflect on individual and collective memories of feminist organizing, to revitalize feminist visions and to develop shared analyses of changing political and social conditions.
In this work, we have realized the potential for new and broader understandings of feminist strategies - both inside and outside the academy. This electronic journal is seen as an avenue to continue the work undertaken in conferences, to facilitate communication across feminist networks, and to promote wider feminist involvement in transforming knowledge and social structures. Members are Linda Christiansen-Ruffman, Francine Descarries, Keith Louise Fulton, Carmen Lambert, and Marilyn Taylor.
PAR-L is an electronic network of individuals and organizations interested in women-centred policy issues in Canada. It includes an electronic discussion list, founded in 1995, and a Web site, developed a year later. The list and Web site are tools for developing, conducting and distributing feminist research in a multidisciplinary context and in both official languages. In 1997, PAR-L received a Strategic Research Network grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Its founding members are Michèle Ollivier and Wendy Robbins.
All members of Learning to Change Network and PAR-L are active participants as Editors and share responsibilities cooperatively.
As Editors of STRATEGIES, we have ethical responsibilities toward authors, reviewers and readers. These responsibilities include fair review within reasonable time-frames for publishing decisions. The opinions expressed in STRATEGIES are those of the authors. While the public discussion Forum welcomes a diversity of perspectives, the Editors reserve the right not to publish material that we find sexist, racist, homophobic, or otherwise similarly offensive. Practices known as "flaming" will also constitute ground for non-publication.
EDITORIAL POLICIESSTRATEGIES publishes three numbers a year. Each number normally includes one or two refereed text(s) as well as editorial material. Approximately two weeks after this material is issued, invited commentaries on the texts, which have been solicited by the editors, are posted to the Forum as a contribution to the discussion. Readers are invited to engage with the text, commentaries and editorial material by posting their own reflections and commentaries to the Forum. After approximately two months, authors are given an opportunity either to comment on the responses or to revise their article. The authors' responses and the Editors' selections of discussion and commentaries are then reposted as the Issue that is archived. Thus, each number will have at least two versions: the initial issue and a second which will contain the authors' original or revised texts and commentaries and discussion (selected by the Editors and their designates). In the exceptional case that significant discussion continues, additional issues will be released.
The journal invites, and will actively recruit, contributions in English and French. Texts are published in the language in which they are submitted; abstracts of refereed articles are included in both languages.
As a new medium of feminist communication which seeks to provide the widest possible access and exchange of ideas, STRATEGIES allows individual readers to reproduce articles for research and educational purposes free of charge and without permission, provided that credit is attributed to the authors and the journal. However, commercial use of STRATEGIES or the articles contained herein is expressly prohibited without the written consent of the Editors.
Non-exclusive rights for contributions to debates and comments to articles are requested so that these may appear in STRATEGIES prior to publication elsewhere.
FORUM PARTICIPATION GUIDELINESSTRATEGIES invites participation in its discussion Forum. It welcomes substantive commentary on the ideas, methods, processes, contexts, sources, frames of analysis, theoretical implications and strategic value of feature articles and editorial material. The maximum length of a commentary is 2500 words. Commentaries signed by the author may be posted directly to the Forum.
Editorial suggestions should go directly to the author(s), whose contact point will be published at the end of each article. Comments for the Editors and proposals for articles should go to the Editors at strategi@aix1.uottawa.ca.
ARTICLE PROPOSALSSince STRATEGIES only publishes a small number of refereed texts per year, the Editors have established a two step process for article review. Proposals for feature texts of strategic relevance are invited in the form of a letter containing a short abstract, which will be assessed by the Editors for timeliness of the content and of our ability to publish it quickly. Feature texts will be anonymously peer reviewed. Other material will be reviewed by the Editors. The maximum length of an article is 6000 words.
The Editors also solicit editorial material for each number. This may include interviews, comments on current events, research notes and literary work. Editorial material is reviewed by the Editors.
Articles and editorial material submitted for publication should be sent by regular mail, in four copies, to one of the addresses below. They may also be sent on a diskette formatted in Word, Word Perfect, RTF or ASCII or as an e-mail attachment to: strategi@aix1.uottawa.ca.
All correspondence should be addressed to the Editors via electronic mail at: strategi@aix1.uottawa.ca.
Snail mail, clearly marked STRATEGIES, may be sent to:
Linda Christiansen-Ruffman, Department of Sociology, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3C3
Michèle Ollivier, Département de sociologie, Université d'Ottawa, 550 rue Cumberland, C.P. 450, Succ.A, Ottawa (Ontario) K1N 6N5.
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