Toni Bowers and Natasha Ward’s work appeared on the Autumn 2013 issue of Signs (vol. 39, no. 1), a special issue titled “Women, Gender, and Prison: National and Global Perspectives.” Artist Statements: Toni Bowers: Being able to express my inner/outer feelings through art was something I had never experienced before. It was a way of an […]
Archive: August, 2013
Women, Gender, and Prison: National and Global Perspectives (Autumn 2013; vol. 39, no.1)
The past forty years have witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of women imprisoned worldwide; over half a million women are now incarcerated, and the growth rate of women’s imprisonment has outstripped that of men’s. Despite neoliberal commitments to cut back the state, many states have dramatically increased spending on policing and imprisonment at […]
Highlights for the American Sociological Association’s 2013 Annual Meeting
In light of the fact that the 108th annual conference of the American Sociological Association kicks off in New York at the end of this week, Signs is making freely available, for a limited period, two articles of interest to ASA members, or to anyone with an interest in feminist sociology. These two articles demonstrate […]