Feminist Frictions: Key Concepts and Controversies features essays by prominent feminist scholars engaging a key concept or debate in which feminists of good faith have legitimate disagreements. Most assuredly not designed as encyclopedia entries, these pieces instead are potentially controversial “white papers” that offer a nuanced and edgy take on a key issue circulating in the feminist definitional landscape. Each essay is accompanied by an expansive multimedia digital archive that includes podcasts, videos, and cartoons, as well as more traditional books and articles, that speak to the concept in question. Feminist Frictions essays are published in print as well as on the Signs website.
Title IX
Featuring Catharine R. Stimpson's essay "Dereliction, Due Process, and Decorum: The Crises of Title IX" and an extensive multimedia digital archive.
Sex Work
Featuring Siobhan Brooks's essay "Innocent White Victims and Fallen Black Girls: Race, Sex Work, and the Limits of Anti-Sex Trafficking Laws" and an extensive multimedia digital archive.
Identity Politics
Featuring Suzanna Danuta Walters's essay "In Defense of Identity Politics" and an extensive multimedia digital archive.
Celebrity Feminism
Featuring Janell Hobson's essay "Celebrity Feminism: More Than a Gateway" and an extensive multimedia digital archive.
Trigger Warnings
Featuring Jack Halberstam's essay "Trigger Happy: From Content Warning to Censorship" and a digital archive related to trigger warnings.
Affirmative Consent
Featuring Janet Halley's essay "The Move to Affirmative Consent" and a digital archive related to affirmative consent.