A new issue of Films for the Feminist Classroom, an online, open-access journal of films reviews, lesson plans, and other essays, has just been published. This issue marks the first to be published under the auspices of the Department of Women’s Studies at Texas Woman’s University and the editorship of Agatha Beins. FFC, which was formerly housed in the […]
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Rosa Menkman – “Shattered Horizons” (2010)
Artist Statement In The Collapse of PAL (eulogy, obsequies and requiem for the planes of blue phosphorus), the Angel of History (as described by Walter Benjamin) reflects on the PAL (phase alternating line) signal and its termination. This death sentence, although executed in silence, was a brutally violent act that left PAL disregarded and obsolete. […]
Summer 2014 (vol. 39, no. 4)
The Summer 2014 issue of Signs (available on JSTOR) begins with a comparative perspective symposium on the theme of “Gender, Media, and Social Change,” edited by Christina Dunbar-Hester. Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh opens the symposium with an exploration of how the Iranian women’s movement turned to virtual spaces to forge connections between different social groups and to […]
Symposium Essays in International Languages
To accompany the comparative perspectives symposium on “Translation, Feminist Scholarship, and the Hegemony of English” in the latest issue, Signs and the University of Chicago Press are making available versions of five of the symposium essays in international languages as an online-only special feature. Francine Descarries’s “Language Is Not Neutral” is available in French, Lola Sánchez’s “Translations That […]
Kim Anno – Photograph (2010)
Artist Statement: In 2009 Kim Anno led a team of professors, students, and artists to create a national conference–Rising Tide, the Arts and Ecological Ethics–between the California College of the Arts and Stanford University. This experience transformed her own artistic practice. In 2011 she attended Cop 17 in Durban, while making a film with young […]
Spring 2014 (vol. 39, no. 3)
This issue (available on JSTOR) begins with a comparative perspectives symposium on the theme of “Translation, Feminist Scholarship, and the Hegemony of English.” Claudia de Lima Costa and Sonia Alvarez open the symposium by signaling the importance of translation, conceived both linguistically and ontologically, to contemporary decolonial feminisms, and they examine the role of academic […]
Abuse at Tutwiler Prison
Recent news reports detail a pattern of horrifying abuse at Alabama’s Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women. Artists Toni Bowers and Natasha Ward, whose work appears on the cover of Signs’s special issue on Women, Gender, and Prison are inmates in this institution. Their work, their artists’s statement, and their bios are testimony to their extraordinary […]
Nadieszda Kizenko Awarded 2013 Distinguished Article Prize from Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture
Signs is very pleased to announce that Nadieszda Kizenko has been awarded the Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture‘s 2013 Distinguished Article Prize for her Signs article “Feminized Patriarchy? Orthodoxy and Gender in Post-Soviet Russia.” Please join us in congratulating her! Kizenko’s article investigates the tensions facing religious women in contemporary Russia. Kizenko […]
Highlights for the Feminist Digital Pedagogies Conference, January 23-24, 2014
The Feminist Digital Pedagogies Conference, hosted by the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, will take place in New Brunswick, NJ, next week, on January 23 and 24. The conference will be streamed live, starting at 1 pm on Thursday, on the department’s website, and updates will be available through its Facebook page as well […]
Signs Authors Win Florence Howe Awards at #MLA14
Two articles recently published in Signs have been awarded the Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship from the Women’s Caucus of the Modern Languages Association. The awards ceremony will take place at the MLA Convention in Chicago on Thursday, January 9, from 8:45-10:00 pm in Chicago VIII at the Sheraton Chicago. The awards will […]