Lisa A. Turngren’s 2-Way Mirror was featured on the Summer 2012 issue of Signs, “Sex: A Thematic Issue.” Artist Statement As a medium, collage has always allowed me to speak about concepts and content that lie on the surface (manifest) and below (latent). It is a form that lends itself to tricking the eye and […]
Archive: June, 2012
Sex: A Thematic Issue (Summer 2012; vol. 37, no. 4)
Taking an expansive approach to the many valences of “sex,” this issue brings together perspectives from sociologists, historians, anthropologists, and science studies scholars to consider the emergence of sex as a category, its surprising geographical and historical variability, and its imbrication with processes of regulation, racialization, and commodification. The issue challenges any attempt to ground […]