Along with scholarly articles, the journal publishes fiction and creative nonfiction, poetry, and the visual arts.

"Classics Revisited" rereads a major text of women's and feminist studies, with a response by the original author.

Other recent themes for WSQ issues have included precarious work (Fall/Winter 2017), mother (Fall Winter 2009), market (Fall/Winter 2010), and looking across the lens (Spring/Summer 2002).

In 2007, WSQ obtained the 2007 Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement of The Council of Editors of Learned Journals.

"[10] Individuals reading and engaging with the newsletter were interested in how to get funding for women's studies programs and how to create jobs for people to teach these types of classes.

In the Fall 1976 issue, there was a proposal for a founding convention of National Women's Studies Association placed next to the edition's editorial.

[14] NWSA became a co-publisher of the Women's Studies Newsletter throughout 1982, at which point it returned to solely being produced by the Feminist Press.