Gender and the Rise of the Global Right, a special issue edited by Agniezska Graff, Ratna Kapur, and Suzanna Danuta Walters, is now available.
Gender and the Rise of the Global Right (Spring 2019; vol. 44, no. 3)
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Doris Salcedo – Shibboleth (2007)
Artist Statement Shibboleth is a subterranean chasm that stretches the length of the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. The concrete walls of the crevice are ruptured by a steel mesh fence, creating a tension between these elements that resist yet depend on one another. By making the floor the principal focus of the project, Salcedo […]
Short Takes: Charlene A. Carruthers’s Unapologetic
Moya Bailey and Kai Green discuss Charlene A. Carruthers’s book Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements, with a response from Carruthers.
Short Takes: Soraya Chemaly’s Rage Becomes Her
Shoshanna Ehrlich, Holloway Sparks, Jamia Wilson, and Andi Zeisler discuss Soraya Chemaly’s Rage Becomes Her, with a response from Chemaly.
Shahzia Sikander – Ready to Leave (1997)
Artist Statement Ready to Leave was made in response to the straightjacketing that I encountered in terms of my biography in the mid- to late nineties in the US. The journey to explore the personal had already started in Pakistan in my work. With the distance from “home,” the process of self-actualization came into focus. […]
Winter 2019 (vol. 44, no. 2)
The winter 2019 issue of Signs is now available online from the University of Chicago Press. The table of contents is as follows: A Note from the Editor Suzanna Danuta Walters Articles Milk Money: Race, Gender, and Breast Milk “Donation” Laura Harrison The Polluted Child and Maternal Responsibility in the US Environmental Health Movement Norah […]
Cynthia Enloe Discusses Gender and the Rise of the Global Right with Agnieszka Graff, Ratna Kapur, and Suzanna Danuta Walters
Cynthia Enloe discusses gender and the rise of the global Right with the coeditors of the forthcoming Signs special issue on the topic, Agnieszka Graff, Ratna Kapur, and Suzanna Danuta Walters.
Gina Litherland – Tea Leaf Reading (2014)
Artist Statement Since I was a child I’ve been enthralled with folktales, myths, and literature, and these have been a major source of inspiration in my work. Children’s games, old theater forms like puppetry and opera, traditional British folk ballads, divination, superstitions, the human/animal boundary, and the natural world also come into play in my […]