NORA is a multi-disciplinary international journal of feminist and gender research, with a distinct Nordic edge. Its purpose is to provide a Nordic perspective on an international research field and to make feminist and gender research located in and/or relevant to the area visible internationally. As an English-language journal, NORA is committed to situating and mapping the breadth and depth of Nordic feminist and gender research today, and to promoting transnational and transdisciplinary dialogue.
As the leading multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary journal of gender and feminist research in the region, NORA publishes articles in a wide range of disciplines, using diverse theory, data and methods. Whether conceptual, theoretical, empirical or methodological, submissions should participate in, or reflect on, Nordic issues, discussions and research interests in the globalized world. NORA welcomes research articles, review articles, position papers, essays and book reviews that present emerging trends in feminist and gender studies or thematic overviews of major theoretical perspectives and research fields. Submissions should be of interdisciplinary interest and combine international dialogues with materials, theory formations or topics of northern interest and relevance. NORA welcomes submissions that discuss intersectionality and complexities of gender, also written from outside of the Nordic region.
Contributions to NORA should be accessible to a diverse readership of interested academic readers. Authors are therefore encouraged to explain discipline-specific terms and methodologies and may show how their findings have relevance for gender researchers in other disciplines. The articles in NORA are also relevant for policy makers, equality consultants, cultural workers and social activists who seek insights into gendered and intersecting inequality, relations of power within and across state, family, work, civil society and fields of culture in Nordic societies.
History
NORA was chosen as the name for the journal as a tribute to the female protagonist in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll house. The journal was established in 1993 as a “new voice in international women’s studies” and the editorial office has been moving between Nordic universities/countries every second year since then. As the first Nordic journal to be published in English NORA aims to be international in scope and make Nordic feminist and women’s studies visible outside the Nordics. Already the first editorial made clear that publishing in English “is our key to the greater world” and that contributions from non-Nordic countries are welcome. Today four issues per year are published, covering a wide range of topics of gender and feminist research located in or relevant to Nordic countries.
Readership:
Researchers in women’s studies, humanities, social sciences, international women’s research centres.
Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.
Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.
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