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Contemporary Women s Writing Template

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About the Contemporary Women s Writing format

Contemporary Women s Writing is a peer-reviewed journal published by Oxford University Press, covering Contemporary Literature and Criticism, Poetry Analysis and Criticism, Gender, Feminism, and Media.

PublisherOxford University Press
Reference styleAuthor–year (OUP)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Contemporary Women s Writing, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inContemporary Literature and Criticism Poetry Analysis and Criticism Gender, Feminism, and Media Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies Short Stories in Global Literature
ISSN1754-1476
Citation impact (2-yr)0.29
h-index20
i10-index46
Total citations2,777
Article processing charge$3,287
Top institutions publishing hereLiverpool John Moores University
Journal websitecww.oxfordjournals.org
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Papers published in Contemporary Women s Writing per year

34
2014
45
2015
63
2016
61
2017
48
2018
32
2019
23
2020
38
2021
28
2022
32
2023
26
2024
25
2025

Citation impact of Contemporary Women s Writing by publication year

144
2014
207
2015
1.1K
2016
100
2017
242
2018
75
2019
33
2020
58
2021
13
2022
15
2023
15
2024
0
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Contemporary Women s Writing

Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human As Praxis

Kaiama L. Glover · 6 Jan 2016

Katherine McKittrick’s edited volume Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis is, as its title makes plain, rooted in the concept of praxis. This is a concept that, for Wynter, involves a vital ethic – vital, as in a matter of life and death. The volume is comprised of a lengthy conversation between Wynter and…

Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements

Justyna Poray-Wybranowska · 26 Nov 2018

Julietta Singh’s Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements is concerned with unpacking the ways mastery underpins much of contemporary thought. Mastery is pervasive in philosophical conceptions of human relations with perceived Others. It helps uphold oppressive racist and colonial power structures, yet, at the same time, it persists in discourses aimed at resisting and dismantling…

The Repeating Body: Slavery’s Visual Resonance in the Contemporary

Sandra Smiley Trimble · 29 Jul 2016

In The Repeating Body, Kimberly Juanita Brown insists that there is “no way to see the indexical force of the horrendous event of transnational slavery unless the way of seeing, the sight and the sound of it, is rearticulated and black women are at the center of the frame” (17). Telling the story of slavery…

Chick Lit and Postfeminism

Steve Leonard · 8 Dec 2011

In response to the accolades heaped on Jonathan Franzen following the publication of his novel Freedom (2010), an acerbic look at American marital and family dynamics, popular female authors Jennifer Weiner and Jodi Picoult began their own media blitz, one focused on the literary establishment’s sidelining of female writers who take on similar themes. Referencing…

Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions

Molly Pulda · 28 Apr 2016

Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser’s Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions is the first collection of feminist narrative theory since 1996, and the first collection of queer narrative theory. The “unbound” of their title is “a term of Promethean audacity” for their mandate to “loose some chains of narrative thinking” (1). Warhol and…

Contemporary Women s Writing template — frequently asked questions

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What reference style does Contemporary Women s Writing use?
Contemporary Women s Writing uses Author–year (OUP) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Contemporary Women s Writing, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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