The cover of the Spring 2017 issue of Signs features Lorna Simpson’s Five Day Forecast (1988).
The Spring 2017 issue of Signs is now available online. The issue features a symposium commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham’s pivotal Signs article, “African-American Women’s History and the The Metalanguage of Race.” The symposium, edited by Sherie M. Randolph, features essays by Robin D. G. Kelley, Tamar W. Carroll, Dayo F. Gore, Marlon M. Bailey and L. H. Stallings, and Randolph, as well as a response and reflection by Higginbotham.
The issue also contains articles about the framing and reception of Afghan women’s narratives for a Western audience, pornography and labor, women’s protests in Ukraine, and the political economy of Muslim Chinese women’s wearing of maozi.
Two aspects of the Feminist Public Intellectuals Project are also featured: Susan J. Carroll discusses gender and electoral politics with Suzanna Danuta Walters, in “Ask a Feminist” (a longer transcript and audio is also available here). And “Short Takes” examine Gloria Steinem’s My Life on the Road and Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik’s Notorious RBG (also available online here).
Table of Contents
The Metalanguage of Race: A Commemoration
A symposium edited by Sherie M. Randolph
Introduction
Sherie M. Randolph
On Violence and Carcerality
Robin D. G. Kelley
Intersectionality and Identity Politics: Cross-Identity Coalitions for Progressive Social Change
Tamar Carroll
Difference, Power, and Lived Experiences: Revisiting the “Metalanguage of Race”
Dayo F. Gore
Antiblack Racism and the Metalanguage of Sexuality
Marlon M. Bailey and L. H. Stallings
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, the Metalanguage of Race, and the Genealogy of Black Feminist Legal Theory
Sherie M. Randolph
“The Metalanguage of Race,” Then and Now
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Articles
Stories and Statecraft: Afghan Women’s Narratives and the Construction of Western Freedoms
Sujatha Fernandes
Porn Work, Feminist Critique, and the Market for Authenticity
Heather Berg
“The Hardest of Hardcore”: Locating Feminist Possibilities in Women’s Extreme Pornography
Jennifer Moorman
“We’re Not Just Sandwiches”: Europe, Nation, and Feminist (Im)Possibilities on Ukraine’s Maidan
Emily S. Channell-Justice
The Silent Hat: Islam, Female Labor, and the Political Economy of the Headscarf Debate
Guangtian Ha
Ask a Feminist:
A Conversation with Susan J. Carroll on Gender and Electoral Politics
Susan J. Carroll and Suzanna Danuta Walters
Short Takes: Reflections on Gloria Steinem’s My Life on the Road and Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik’s Notorious RBG
Feminism at the Intersections
Khiara Bridges
Out There on Their Own
Sady Doyle
Let Us Now Praise Real Icons
Catharine Stimpson
Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Gloria Steinem Still Matter
Salamishah Tillet
Telling Women’s Lives
Susan Ware
A Response
Gloria Steinem
A Response
Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik