In light of the fact that the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference kicks off in Chicago next week, Signs is making available, for a limited period, several articles of interest to SCMS members, or to anyone with an interest in feminist scholarship on cinema, media, and popular culture. This collection of four […]
Archive: February, 2013
Elena Figurina, Composition (2002)
This detail of Elena Figurina’s Composition appeared on the cover of the Spring 2013 issue of Signs (volume 38, number 3), which featured a cluster of articles on women in contemporary Russia. Artist Statement This work represents the relationship between part and whole, private and public. Biographical Statement Elena Figurina was born in 1955. She […]
Spring 2013 (vol. 38, no. 3)
Leading off this issue of Signs is Anna Hájková’s “Sexual Barter in Times of Genocide: Negotiating the Sexual Economy of the Theresienstadt Ghetto,” the winner of the 2013 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship. The article draws on archival material, memoirs, and interview data to relate a remarkable story about gender power in a […]