Artist Statement: Let go with me Make room for Joy! The weightlessness of forgiveness Seeks peace With love – Maya Freelon Asante Artist Biography: Maya Freelon Asante is an award‐winning artist whose work was described by poet Maya Angelou as “visualizing the truth about the vulnerability and power of the human being”; her unique tissue […]
Archive: December, 2014
Winter 2015 (vol. 40, no. 2)
The Winter 2015 issue of Signs begins with a comparative perspective symposium titled “Politics of the Sensing Subject: Gender, Perception, Art,” edited and introduced by Anne Keefe. The symposium is inspired by the new centrality of affective studies in feminist theorizations of subjectivity, embodiment, politics, and social change. The five essays in the symposium demonstrate […]
Video of Signs@40 Anniversary Event
Video of the Signs@40: Feminist Scholarship through Four Decades event held at Rutgers University’s Douglass Library is below. Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, speakers explore the history of feminist publishing and the use of digital humanities techniques to map the field. Hosted by Professor Mary Hawkesworth, outgoing Editor […]
Inaugural Editorial: Thinking and Doing Feminism
This editorial by Suzanna Danuta Walters, the incoming editor of Signs, will appear in the Spring 2015 issue. It is with great pride and pleasure that I join the distinguished ranks of editors of Signs. Along with my colleague Carla Kaplan, who will serve as Chair of the Board of Associate Editors, I am excited to begin […]