Taking an expansive approach to the many valences of “sex,” this issue brings together perspectives from sociologists, historians, anthropologists, and science studies scholars to consider the emergence of sex as a category, its surprising geographical and historical variability, and its imbrication with processes of regulation, racialization, and commodification. The issue challenges any attempt to ground […]
This issue features a comparative perspectives symposium titled “Fish/Wives: Gender, Representation, and Agency in Coastal Communities,” edited by Valerie Burton. The symposium includes historical essays, ethnographic studies of contemporary fishing communities, and analyses of representations of fish/wives. Essays track historical and contemporary gendered labor practices and representations in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. […]
Signs’s Winter 2012 issue is a special issue featuring feminist explorations of the intricacies of unfinished revolutions. In his introduction to the issue, guest editor Phillip Rothwell claims that “when assessing any revolution—whether it explicitly seeks political, aesthetic, or epistemological transformation—feminist experience teaches us that it is often best to analyze by looking for the […]
The Autumn 2011 issue features a comparative perspectives symposium titled “Gloria E. Anzaldúa, An International Perspective,” edited by Norma Cantú. The symposium brings together voices impacted by Anzaldúa’s work on borders and border crossing from around the globe with articles on the Mediterranean, Poland, Ukraine, the Canary Islands, Mexico, and other geographical and contextual locations. […]
