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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In tribute to the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela (1918–2013), Signs is offering open access to two articles on the changing, dynamic, inspiring, and still troubling situation in South Africa. Mandela’s extraordinary legacy—of the overthrow of apartheid and transition to democracy, of the unheralded, ongoing process of truth and reconciliation—stands as an inspiration to anyone […]
Lucien Kubo’s work appeared on the Winter 2014 issue of Signs. Artist Statement: I am a Sansei, a third-generation Japanese American. An important part of my life experience is that of my parents, their family, and over 120,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated in internment camps during World War II. I think of my art as philosophical, historical, […]
This issue of Signs begins with two articles analyzing the literature of Japanese American internment, Sarah Dowling’s “‘How Lucky I Was to Be Free and Safe at Home’: Reading Humor in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660” and Cynthia Wu’s “Asian American Feminism’s Alliances with Men: Reading Hisaye Yamamoto’s ‘Seventeen Syllables.’” Dowling and Wu propose modes of […]
There are two opportunities to speak with Signs editors at the upcoming NWSA conference, Negotiating Points of Encounter. At the workshop “Academic Publishing in Women’s Studies: Journals,” Signs editor in chief Mary Hawkesworth will join editors of other top women’s studies journals–Gail Cohee of Feminist Teacher, Sandra Soto of Feminist Formations, and Ashwini Tambe of Feminist […]
Over the past several months, mainstream media outlets in the European Union and United States have generated a resurgence of stories about the Roma that reinscribe racializing stereotypes and essentialist claims of cultural backwardness. Cases of suspected child abduction, deportation of Romani immigrants (and subsequent protests), and their illicitly acquired wealth have been afforded an intensified […]
