Ask a Feminist
In the latest Ask a Feminist, renowned scholar and activist Cynthia Enloe sits down with the coeditors of the forthcoming special issue “Gender and the Rise of the Global Right“–Agnieszka Graff, Ratna Kapur, and Suzanna Danuta Walters–to analyze the role that ideas about gender play in the current political landscape, especially the increasing prominence of right-wing political figures and parties around the world. They discuss the extent to which antifeminism and antigenderism fuel right-wing political movements, the gendering of leadership and electoral politics, and the possibilities for transnational feminist organizing and resistance.
Ask a Feminist is part of the open-access Feminist Public Intellectuals Project.
Autumn 2018
The Autumn 2018 issue of Signs is now available online. As is typical of Signs, the sites and intellectual archives engaged in the issue range widely—touching on Israeli courts, US women’s prisons, urban India, nineteenth-century literature and contemporary film, Malaysian everyday life, the clitoris, and so much more. In wildly different locales and voices, many articles wrestle with the body as the site of the most profound violence and normative gendering while simultaneously pointing toward the possibility of agency and resistance. These scholars read the body as manifest in the rape joke and in the prison, in the flowing of women’s hair and in the scientific gaze defining women’s genitalia, in the body on the front porch creating community, and in the erotic body trying to love outside the strictures of compulsory monogamy.
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Signs on the Syllabus: Feminist Practices
A course reader featuring units on women’s labor, the commodification of women’s sexuality and reproduction, violence against women, and varieties of activism.
An open-access journal reviewing films of potential interest to feminist teachers, now housed at Texas Woman's University.