Short Takes
In the latest installment of the open-access feature Short Takes: Provocations on Public Feminism, Jaclyn Friedman, Kelly Oliver, Claire Potter, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, and Lisa Wade discuss Laura Kipnis’s Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus. The forum also features a response by Kipnis herself.
Short Takes is part of the Feminist Public Intellectuals Project.
Our Current Issue
The Summer 2017 issue of Signs features the co-winners of the 2017 Catharine R. Stimpson Prize for Oustanding Feminist Scholarship, Cameron Awkward-Rich’s “Trans, Feminism: Or, Reading like a Depressed Transsexual” and Meghan Healy-Clancy’s “The Family Politics of the Federation of South African Women: A History of Public Motherhood in Women’s Antiracist Activism.” Named in honor of the Founding Editor of Signs, the Stimpson Prize is designed to recognize excellence and innovation in the work of emerging feminist scholars. The issue also contains articles on the governance of child marriage in India, virginity testing in Egypt, Israeli women’s cinema, creative anti-rape imagery in India, and the relationship between sociobiology and US evangelical conceptions of masculinity. Read more about the prizewinners here, or view the issue itself.
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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.