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. As a feminist journal, we are committed to publishing practices that follow our Ethics of Care statement.
Current Issue: Volume 14, Issue 2 (2024) Winter
Scholarship
Photo-Feminists: The Inter-textual Discussion of Eighteenth-Century Periodical Frontispieces
Karenza Sutton-Bennett
Scholarship Special Issue
Introduction: The Salon and the Senses in Eighteenth-Century France
Jennifer M. Jones and Rebecca Cypess
Simulating an Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment Salon: Embodied Experience and Scholarly Investigation
Jennifer M. Jones
Enfilade and Variations: Interpreting Salon Music through Residential Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Nicole Vilkner
The Sounds of Madame Geoffrin’s Salon
Melanie Conroy
Playing Proverbs with Madame de Genlis
Rebecca Cypess
Pedagogy Special Issue
Concise Collections: Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Part II
E Mariah Spencer and Tiffany Potter
An Argumental Discourse Before All: An Approach to Teaching Cavendish
Jonathan L. Shaheen
“Strange and Unusual Things”: Teaching the Speculative Fiction of Margaret Cavendish
E Mariah Spencer
Reviews
A Review of Maeve E. Kane's Shirts Powdered Red: Haudenosaunee Gender, Trade, and Exchange across Three Centuries
Melissa Adams-Campbell
A Review of Jennifer Maclure’s The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction
Jolene Zigarovich
A Review of Glenn McGillivray's Actors, Audiences, and Emotions in the Eighteenth Century: Communities of Sentiment
Semane Parsons
Conversations
Introduction: Intergenerational Thinking
Katherine Binhammer
Periodizing the Long Eighteenth Century — Across Generations
Katarina O'Briain
Reading as Lesbian, Reading as Trans* and Thinking Intergenerationally
Katherine Binhammer
Editors
- Editor
- Laura Runge
- Managing Editor
- Kelly Plante
- Scholarship Editor
- Mona Narain
- Pedagogy Editor
- Tiffany Potter
- Digital Humanities Editor
- Nicole Infanta Keller
- Book Review Editor
- Nicolle Jordan
- Lead Copy Editor
- Elizabeth Ford
