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Signs@40: Feminist Scholarship through Four Decades

Visibility and Visuality: Reframing Gender in the Middle East, North Africa, and their Diasporas

  • Julie Mehretu – Sing, Unburied, Sing (J.W.) (2018)

  • Alison Saar – Grow’d (2019)

  • Faith Ringgold – Echoes of Harlem (1980)

  • Ida Applebroog – Emetic Fields (1985)

  • Doris Salcedo – Shibboleth (2007)

  • Shahzia Sikander – Ready to Leave (1997)

  • Gina Litherland – Tea Leaf Reading (2014)

  • Paula Scher – World Trade (2010)

  • Ana Teresa Fernández – Borrando la Frontera (Erasing the border) (2011)

  • Ellen Driscoll – The Loophole of Retreat (1990-91)

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