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.
Contact the managing editor: aphrabehnonline@gmail.com.
Statement of Solidarity
We at ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 strongly condemn the murder of our fellow Black Americans in 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 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
