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The Spring 2013 issue of Signs features the winner of the 2013 Stimpson Prize and much more.
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Visibility and Visuality: Reframing Gender in the Middle East, North Africa, and Their Diasporas
In conjunction with the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art's Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society project, Signs has launched a virtual issue drawn from two decades of feminist scholarship.
Image: Shadi Ghadirian, from the Miss Butterfly series (2011).
Our Spring Issue
The Spring 2013 issue of Signs features the winner of the 2013 Stimpson Prize and much more.
Visibility and Visuality: Reframing Gender in the Middle East, North Africa, and Their Diasporas
In conjunction with the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art's Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society project, Signs has launched a virtual issue drawn from two decades of feminist scholarship.
Image: Shadi Ghadirian, from the Miss Butterfly series (2011).
Welcome to the website for Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. This site features content available exclusively online, as well as information about current and upcoming issues, general information about the journal, and guidelines for authors.
Our Current Issue
The Summer 2013 issue of Signs—a thematic issue titled “Intersectionality: Theorizing Power, Empowering Theory,” guest edited by Sumi Cho, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, and Leslie McCall—brings together numerous strands of intersectional scholarship, simultaneously taking stock of the diverse field of intersectionality studies and forging new directions for the production of future insurgent knowledges. It offers a snapshot of the dynamic and expanding disciplinary, geographical, and theoretical range of intersectionality studies, highlighting the manifold ways intersectionality can be understood and practiced. Read more about the issue contents here or view the issue on JSTOR.
Virtual Issue: Visibility and Visuality
“Visibility and Visuality: Reframing Gender in the Middle East, North Africa, and Their Diasporas” is a virtual issue of Signs (open access for a limited time) produced in collaboration with the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art in celebration of the Fertile Crescent: Art, Gender, and Society project. This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary collection explores political engagement and protest; sexuality, marriage and family life; Islamicization and secularism; the politics of resistance in public and private spheres; cultural production and translation; migration and diaspora; labor and class within and across nations; agency and identity; and conflict and postconflict situations.
A classroom resource designed for a variety of contexts, this feature presents full syllabi and teaching modules drawn from the Signs archives. Of interest to anyone who teachers in women’s, gender, and sexuality Studies, the offerings here might be adopted wholesale for use in classrooms at many levels or used to spark creative ideas for teaching a diverse array of topics. Currently, we are featuring Signs editor Mary Hawkesworth’s syllabus for the course Feminist Practices.
Films for the Feminist Classroom, an online, open-access journal, publishes film reviews that provide a critical assessment of the value of films as pedagogical tools in the feminist classroom. Special features, such as interviews with filmmakers, are included to further promote engagement and discussion. FFC endeavors to serve as a dynamic resource for teachers and librarians and to enhance feminist curricula, bringing film into the classroom via thought-provoking, relevant, and engaging reviews.
Signs Blog
The blog contains posts on various Signs-related topics, including announcements of open-access content, prizes, and new online features. Posts will also provide more information about the content published in Signs: comparative perspectives symposia, special issues, and articles. Calls for papers can also be found here.
Art in Signs
View a cover art gallery displaying the many artworks Signs has featured over the years. Also read artist statements and biographical statements from artists whose work is featured on current issues of Signs.