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Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation is an Australian feminist academic journal, founded in 1975.

It is currently published by Hecate Press, in association with the Centre for Women, Gender, Culture and Social Change Research, in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland. Its current and foundation editor is Carole Ferrier. In 1997 Hecate Press amalgamated the Australian Women's Book Review to become the Hecate's Australian Women's Book Review.

The journal takes its name from the ancient Greek goddess Hecate, a symbol of female strength and power in Greek mythology. Ferrier first envisaged her work to be titled Cauldron, as fate would have it, women at the University of Sydney were developing an Art journal of the same name. Unfased, Ferrier surrendered the name. In search of another, she reflected on the subversive origins of witches, magic, and cauldrons, and came upon the ancient Greek goddess.