ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 (ISSN 2157-7129) is an open access, interactive, scholarly journal, launched in 2011 by the Aphra Behn Society. The journal is supported by the University of South Florida Tampa Library. The journal focuses on gender and women’s issues, and all aspects of women in the arts in the long eighteenth century, especially literature, visual arts, music, performance art, film criticism, and production arts.
Statement of Solidarity
We at ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 strongly condemn the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and our fellow Black Americans Breonna Taylor and Ahmad Aubrey, the most recent victims of the long history of brutality, hate, and systemic prejudice. Further, we condemn the legacy and language of white supremacy that has de-centered the lives, experiences, knowledge, and creative contributions of Black men and women to American history and culture. We affirm our strong support for all our Black brothers and sisters and all who have been victimized and marginalized due to ignorance and discrimination. We also believe deeply in the power of knowledge as a vehicle for positive social change and scholarship as a means for equitable social justice.
As an open access journal founded on feminist principles and focusing on women’s artistic production, ABO’s editorial collective is committed to review and publication practices that are open and inclusive. Much more needs to be done together. We will continue to reach out to scholars from underrepresented communities to encourage and support them. We also commit to seeking out and publishing work that interrogates and reveals the causes, histories, and narratives of the harmful intersections of patriarchy, sexism, racism, slavery, colonialism, and gender discrimination in the time period and areas of scholarship designated by our journal’s mission.
Current Issue: Volume 13, Issue 2 (2023) Winter
Scholarship
Pedagogy Special Issue
Using the Anne Finch Digital Archive as a Teaching Text
Martha F. Bowden
Reviews
Review of Sister Novelists, by Devoney Looser
Katherine Binhammer Prof.
Review of Broadview Anthology of American Literature, edited by Derrick R. Spires et al
Kimberly Takahata
Review of Reckoning with Slavery, by Jennifer L. Morgan
Brigitte Fielder
Review of Botanical Entanglements, by Anna K. Sagal
Millie Schurch
Conversations
Introduction: Conversations on Abortion Rights and Bodily Autonomy in the Eighteenth Century and Today
Vicki Barnett Woods and Manushag N. Powell
The Quick and the Dead (and the Transported)
Manushag N. Powell
Care and Pregnancy Loss
Chelsea Phillips
Is Tenure Enough?: Reproductive Healthcare and Academic Precarity
Lisa Vandenbossche
Editors
- Editor
- Laura Runge
- Managing Editor
- Kate Ozment
- Scholarship Editor
- Mona Narain
- Pedagogy Editor
- Tiffany Potter
- Book Review Editor
- Kelly J. Plante
- Lead Copy Editor
- Elizabeth Ford