Hecate: A Women's Interdisciplinary Journal

Abstract

Vol. I, Nos. 1 and 2, 1975; Vol. II, Nos. 1 and 2, 1976. (St. Lucia, Brisbane)

In the opening editorial of Hecate, the editors profess their commitment - "as feminists and socialists", and in some of the articles printed in the first and subsequent issues, an academic style, implying objectivity, tends to be undercut by the author's unexamined socialist/feminist orientation. By no means all contributions present this difficulty for the reader, but she or he is not likely to realize the distinction at first, since all items necessarily appear under the editors' political umbrella. An uneasy confrontation between scholarship and polemics therefore seems to be the major fault of the journal at present.