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What is The Women’s
Review of Books?
Founded in 1983 and published at Wellesley College’s Center for Research on Women, The Women’s Review of Books is a tabloid-format book review magazine which appears eleven months a year (skipping August). As the only magazine devoted solely to reviewing books by and about women, it is the most influential voice in the field of women’s writing in the English-speaking world.
What does The Women’s
Review of Books publish?
We specialize in in-depth, essay-style book reviews of recently published nonfiction, poetry, and fiction by, about, and of interest to women. Every issue also offers lively Letters to the Editor, the Monthly Bookshelf listing of new nonfiction (booksellers’ and librarians’ favorite), and poetry.
We publish two special issues each year. The February issue, on women and feminism in the academy, features theme interviews and articles in addition to the usual monthly reviews and features. The double summer issue (on sale late June through late August) highlights new fiction and poetry as well as interviews and essays organized around a theme. In 2002, the February and July issues are funded in part by the NEA. February's theme is "Women Teaching Diaspora," and July's theme is "Women Writing the Diaspora."
What kind of advertising
does it carry?
As a book review magazine, we carry extensive ads in every issue from university presses, trade houses, and small presses across the US, Canada and overseas.
Our two special issues offer added value: On sale in January in time for Fall semester course book selections, the February women’s studies issue includes a publishers’ advertising pullout supplement to showcase women’s studies books for course adoption from large and small publishers around the English-speaking world. The July issue’s focus on fiction and poetry attracts a wide range of new-book advertising from small and independent presses that specialize in women’s writing.
Other advertisements announce academic faculty and staff vacancies across North America, the UK, and Australia, as well as journals, conferences, literary prizes, calls for papers, women-run vacation opportunities, writers’ and artists’ workshops, editorial and other services.
Both boxed, display advertisements (run alongside the editorial text), charged by the column inch, and classified section (line) advertisements charged by the word, are available in each issue. Printed classifieds are also posted online at no additional cost for a minimum of 30 days. Online-only classifieds are available at the prevailing classified rate for 30-day increments.
Why advertise in The
Women’s Review of Books?
The Women’s Review of Books offers advertisers access to a targeted and self-motivated consumer market of opinion shapers and cultural gatekeepers, women who use the information they get from us to form opinions, to speak, to write, and to act on their convictions in their communities. Our readers buy books, they seek better academic faculty and staff positions, they attend academic and professional conferences, and they travel widely. They tell us that they rely on the advertising as well as the editorial features in our pages to stay informed. A multi-year survey of current subscribers carried out during the 1990s found that 80% of our subscribers buy 20 or more books every year, and that 64% had responded to ads they saw in the Women’s Review in the past year.
Who reads the Women’s
Review?
About 95% of our readers are women. Two-thirds are academics. Some 23% are other professionals - lawyers, journalists, accountants, doctors, bankers, publishers, entrepreneurs. Of our paid subscribers, 90% live in the US, 5% in Canada and 5% elsewhere in the world. Many of our readers are acquisitions librarians and booksellers who rely on The Women’s Review of Books to make their buying decisions.
How many people read
The Women’s Review of Books?
We estimate, based on our paid circulation of 11,000 copies per issue, a per-issue readership of over 30,000.
More questions? Email amcclell@wellesley.edu or callAnita McClellan at 781-283-2560.