Ask a Feminist
In the latest Ask a Feminist, renowned scholar and activist Cynthia Enloe sits down with the coeditors of the forthcoming special issue “Gender and the Rise of the Global Right“–Agnieszka Graff, Ratna Kapur, and Suzanna Danuta Walters–to analyze the role that ideas about gender play in the current political landscape, especially the increasing prominence of right-wing political figures and parties around the world. They discuss the extent to which antifeminism and antigenderism fuel right-wing political movements, the gendering of leadership and electoral politics, and the possibilities for transnational feminist organizing and resistance.
Ask a Feminist is part of the open-access Feminist Public Intellectuals Project.
Winter 2019
The Winter 2019 issue of Signs is now available online. Articles challenge conventional framings in diverse realms—from the term “gender neutrality” to the maternal body to women’s agency. Feminist orthodoxies, too, are questioned, in pieces that reexamine assumptions about “rescue” narratives and about feminist theologian Mary Daly. And several essays engage with narrative and storytelling, treating the lived experiences of migrant women in Italian detention centers, the Nepalese traditions of storytelling, and the ways in which some practitioners of queer BDSM engage their own histories of trauma.
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Signs on the Syllabus: Feminist Practices
A course reader featuring units on women’s labor, the commodification of women’s sexuality and reproduction, violence against women, and varieties of activism.
An open-access journal reviewing films of potential interest to feminist teachers, now housed at Texas Woman's University.