Due in March 2010, the first issue of the new volume (Issue 94) will feature some of the many high-quality submissions to the Journal, which have been accepted following rigorous peer-review. It brings together new feminist writing that intervenes in a range of current debates and issues.

• How does the academy transform feminism?
• What difference does it make to give feminism a global perspective?
• Can academic feminism survive the neo-liberal attacks on education?

This issue is made up of two themed parts. The first, ‘Theorising the First Wave Globally’, considers feminist social movements transnationally, exploring the difference the international perspective makes to Western ‘wave models’ of feminist theory. The second, ‘Mainstreamed or Muzzled’, revisits academic feminism in Australia after Howard and in the light of neo-liberal shifts locally and globally in higher education. The themes contribute to the current debate on academic feminism, providing interdisciplinary and international perspectives. They combine to make crucial interventions about the importance of feminism transnationally, emphasising the significance of academic feminist readings of history and academic transformations.

Drawing on a range of different genres (oral narratives, poetry, first hand accounts, drama, prose, novels, travelogues and guidebooks), this issue asks how we understand the city. More specifically it asks how these genres motivate particular ways of conceptualising the city, exploring gender, sexuality and urban space. The articles offer an analysis of accounts and representations from the late 16th century to modern day and produce not only different ways of imagining the city, but different conceptual and sensory frameworks for experiencing it. They ‘re-gender’ and ‘re-sexualise’ the dominant ways of theorising urban space, challenging the ideal of the disembodied theorist who produces knowledge of the city.