Unless agreed otherwise all accepted papers become the copyright of the journal. All contributors should be aware they are addressing an international audience.

Manuscripts intended as Articles should be preferably between 3000 and 10,000 words in length. Manuscripts intended as Viewpoints, usually up to 3000 words, should clearly be marked as such. Three complete copies of the submission should be sent to the Editor, Professor June Purvis (june.purvis@port.ac.uk) Women's History Review, School of Social and Historical Studies, University of Portsmouth, Milldam, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth, PO1 3AS, United Kingdom. If possible, the author should supply a copy of the finally accepted article on a disk or via email.

Manuscripts from North America should be sent to Pamela Scully (pamela.scully@emory.edu), Associate Professor of Women's Studies/African Studies, Department of Women's Studies, 550 Asbury Circle, 128 Candler Library, Emory University, Atlanta GA 30322, USA.

Manuscripts from Australia and the Far East should be sent to Professor Joy Damousi (j.damousi@unimelb.edu.au), Department of History, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia.

Books for review should be sent to: Dr. Hannah Barker (Hannah.Barker@manchester.ac.uk), Senior Lecturer in History, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.

Manuscripts submitted should be original, not under review by any other publication and not published elsewhere.

All pages should be numbered. Sponsorship of research reported (e.g. by research councils, government departments and agencies, etc.) should be declared. To allow refereeing, all submissions must be properly formatted for anonymous reviewing. Authors' names and institutions should be typed on a separate sheet and submitted with the manuscript. The full postal and email address of the author who will check proofs and receive correspondence and offprints should be included also.

Each paper should be accompanied on separate sheets by an abstract of 100 to 150 words. A short note of biographical details for each author, including affiliation and information on research and publications, should also be included with submissions.

Tables and captions to illustrations. Tables must be typed out on separate sheets and not included as part of the text. The captions to illustrations should be gathered together and also typed out on a separate sheet. Tables and Figures should be numbered consecutively by Arabic numerals. The approximate position of tables and figures should be indicated in the manuscript. Captions should include keys to any symbols used.

Figures. Please supply one set of artwork in a finished form, suitable for reproduction. Figures will not normally be redrawn by the publisher.

References should be typed, double spaced, on a separate sheet at the end of the text. A full reference is given the first time the work is mentioned:

Ted Thompson (Ed.) (1987) Dear Girl: the diaries and letters of two working women, 1897-1917 (London:The Women's Press).

Further references should consist of the author's surname and the title of the work or, if it is long, shortening the title:

Taylor, Eve and the New Jerusalem.

Please do not use op. cit. However, ibid. should be used to refer to the same work as that cited immediately above.

For journal articles:
Sandra Stanley Holton (1992) The Suffragist and the ‘Average Woman', Women's History Review, 1, pp. 9-24.

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