Autumn 2018

The Autumn 2018 issue of Signs is now available online. As is typical of Signs, the sites and intellectual archives engaged in the issue range widely—touching on Israeli courts, US women’s prisons, urban India, nineteenth-century literature and contemporary film, Malaysian everyday life, the clitoris, and so much more. In wildly different locales and voices, many articles wrestle with the body as the site of the most profound violence and normative gendering while simultaneously pointing toward the possibility of agency and resistance. These scholars read the body as manifest in the rape joke and in the prison, in the flowing of women’s hair and in the scientific gaze defining women’s genitalia, in the body on the front porch creating community, and in the erotic body trying to love outside the strictures of compulsory monogamy.