The second Critical Ethnic Studies Association conference, which will feature presentations from many Signs authors, begins tomorrow. As scholars and activists at the conference grapple with the historical ruptures, epistemic breaks, and everyday violences produced by racism and colonization, Signs is providing open access to two articles from our recent special issue “Women, Gender, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Summer 2013 issue is now available here. This issue’s special feature, Women, Education, and Activism, edited by Anne Keefe, contains two interviews paired with film reviews: An Interview with Charlotte Bunch by Alyssa Rorke followed by a review of Passionate Politics: The Life and Work of Charlotte Bunch by Mary Hawkesworth, and An Interview […]
Ashley Currier’s Signs article “The Aftermath of Decolonization: Gender and Sexual Dissidence in Postindependence Namibia” has been awarded the 2013 Sex and Gender Distinguished Article Award from the Sex and Gender section of the American Sociological Association. Currier’s article, which was published in the Winter 2012 issue of Signs, explores the sociological effects of “political […]
The US Supreme Court is set to hand down a series of key decisions on gene patenting, same-sex marriage, and the Voting Rights Act—all subjects that have been explored in detail in recent issues of Signs. In Association for Molecular Pathology v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, the court will decide whether human genes […]
Intersectionality has become one of feminist and critical race theory’s most generative concepts. The Summer 2013 issue of Signs, Intersectionality: Theorizing Power, Empowering Theory, guest edited by Sumi Cho, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, and Leslie McCall, provides a timely and critical assessment of this pathbreaking concept. Since its coinage in Crenshaw’s work in the late 1980s, […]
Michèle Magema’s Goodbye Rosa – 2005 appeared on the cover of the Summer 2013 issue of Signs (volume 38, number 4), a thematic issue edited by Sumi Cho, Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, and Leslie McCall titled Intersectionality: Theorizing Power, Empowering Theory. Artist Statement Michèle Magema’s work exists within an intermediary zone, a sort of mental space, or a frontier that […]
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