About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Matrix is a new journal in the humanities and social sciences, founded to provide an interdisciplinary forum for those who are working from the theoretical stance of matriculture as a Geertzian cultural system. Matriculture refers to the cultural system that brings together all cultural aspects informing the lives of mothers, usually women, of a given society, and by extension, the lives of women. Talking about matricultural systems allows us to consider as primary the cultural context of a given society as perceived, constructed, and lived by its women.

Similar to other cultural systems such as art, religion, or mathematics, employing the heuristic of matriculture allows for, among other things: cross-cultural comparisons; fresh insights into the social roles of women, men, otherwise identified, children, and the entire community of humans, animals, and the environment; and/or renewed understandings of historically mis-labelled cultures. With Guédon’s work in mind, then, and based on Geertzian principles, the concept of matriculture is both a model of reality by rendering the structure of matricultures apprehensible and a model for reality, where psychological relationships are organized under its guidance.

We encourage submissions from scholars around the world who are ready to take a new look at the ways in which people - historically and currently - have organized meaningful relationships amongst themselves and with the natural environment, the myths, customs, and laws which support these relationships, and the ways in which researchers have documented and perhaps mis-labeled the matricultures they have encountered. We publish research articles, research notes, creative contributions, personal reflections on the theme, book reviews, letters to the editor, and announcements.

Open Access Policy

This open access journal is published under Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivatives 4.0 International copyright licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For further information, see Matrix > Copyright.

Peer Review Policies

All research articles will pass through a double-blind review process before publication, in which authors and reviewers are not identified to each other. This process aims to enrich and strengthen the submitted texts. Reviews will be made by external professionals whose field of expertise relates to the topic of the article; reviewers are encouraged to provide constructive comments.

Other submissions will be reviewed by the Editorial Collective.

Distribution

Currently, Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies is distributed through Feminist Periodicals and, as of January 2025, Érudit online journal distribution platform. We plan to submit an application to the Directory of Open Access Journals shortly.