About the Journal

XX Review: Journal of Gender and Childhood in Literature and Culture is a peer-reviewed journal based in Indonesia that publishes original scholarship at the intersection of gender, childhood, literature, language, and culture. This journal provides a critical forum for examining how women, girls, children, family, care, vulnerability, agency, violence, memory, embodiment, identity, and power are represented, negotiated, and contested in literary texts, linguistic practices, screen media, and wider cultural formations.

This journal is grounded in the humanities while remaining open to interdisciplinary conversations with literary studies, cultural studies, linguistics, gender studies, childhood studies, media studies, film studies, visual studies, discourse studies, translation studies, and related fields. It welcomes theoretically informed, critically engaged, and methodologically rigorous work that advances debates on representation, discourse, aesthetics, ideology, language, and the cultural politics of gender and childhood.

XX Review is committed to gender-inclusive, intersectional, and socially responsive scholarship. This journal particularly encourages work that addresses marginality, exclusion, inequality, silencing, and the uneven distribution of cultural visibility affecting women and children across diverse historical and contemporary contexts. In this regard, the journal values contributions that speak to broader concerns reflected in the Sustainable Development Goals, especially gender equality, quality education, reduced inequalities, and more inclusive, just, and caring societies.

XX Review pays particular attention to Indonesian, Southeast Asian, and other Global South contexts, especially where these contexts illuminate broader transnational, comparative, postcolonial, decolonial, and intersectional questions. The journal seeks to foster dialogue between local specificity and global scholarship, and to make visible critical work on gender and childhood in literature, language, and culture that has often remained marginal within broader women’s studies, childhood studies, cultural studies, or linguistics publications.