In anticipation of the Modern Language Association’s 2013 Convention and its theme, “Avenues of Access,” we would like to highlight some content of particular interest to conference attendees, as well as information about Signs’ presence at the conference. First, we are offering open access to two recent articles. Ellen Samuels’s “Examining Millie and Christine McKoy: […]
Winter 2013 (vol. 38, no. 2)
The articles in Signs’s Winter 2013 issue span a range of disciplines, theoretical vantage points, and topics of study. Jonneke Koomen’s “Without These Women, the Tribunal Cannot Do Anything” explores the limits justice revealed in the nexus of prosecutors, translators, and survivors of genocide, among others, during the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Megan Moodie […]
Signs Events at the NWSA 2012 Conference
Signs will have several events at the National Women’s Studies Association’s upcoming annual conference, Feminism Unbound: Imagining a Feminist Future, November 8-11, 2012. Join Signs editor in chief Mary Hawkesworth, along with the editors of several other leading feminist journals, for the panel “Academic Publishing in Women’s Studies: Journals” on Friday, November 9, from 9:25-10:40 […]
Forthcoming Issue: Volume 38, Number 2 — Winter 2013
Below is the table of contents for Signs‘s forthcoming Winter 2013 issue. Articles “Without These Women, the Tribunal Cannot Do Anything”: The Politics of Witness Testimony on Sexual Violence at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Jonneke Koomen Microfinance and the Gender of Risk: The Case of Kiva.org Megan Moodie The Trouble with “Queerness”: Drag […]
Annoucing Issue 4.1 of Films for the Feminist Classroom
We are thrilled to announce that the latest issue of Films for the Feminist Classroom is now available at http://www.signs.rutgers.edu/ffc_home.html. In this issue’s special feature, edited and introduced by Agatha Beins, scholars and activists discuss their pedagogical approaches for using films in the 21st-century classroom. Focused on engaging and unconventional methods that resonate with students, […]
Autumn 2012 (vol. 38, no. 1)
Signs’s Autumn 2012 issue begins with a symposium on Romani Feminisms, edited by Ethel C. Brooks. Bringing together scholars and activists, the symposium examines the complex ways that Romani women and feminists are positioned in relation to states, communities, and nongovernmental organizations, as well as their multivalent responses to such positionings. In response to the […]