Sarah Deer, Melissa Jeltsen, Qudsia Raja, and Natalie J. Sokoloff discuss Rachel Louise Snyder’s No Visible Bruises, with a response from Snyder.
Short Takes: Rachel Louise Snyder’s No Visible Bruises
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Faith Ringgold – Echoes of Harlem (1980)
Artist Statement I became an artist in the tumultuous 1960s. By the early 1970s I had developed both vision and voice as a black woman artist in America. I went to West Africa in the 1970s and returned home inspired to write my memoir. We Flew Over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold was […]
Autumn 2019 (vol. 45, no. 1)
The Autumn 2019 issue of Signs is now available online. The table of contents is as follows: Reproductive Justice and the History of Prenatal Supplementation: Ethics, Birth Spacing, and the “Priority Infant” Model in The Gambia Meredith Reiches Winner of the 2019 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship Dr. Anna B. Ott, Patient #1763: […]
Ask a Feminist: Deborah Anker Discusses Gender and US Asylum Law with Aziza Ahmed
How has feminism shaped US asylum law? Why and how is the Trump Administration trying to undo feminist gains? Hear asylum- and refugee-law expert Deborah Anker discuss the history and present of gender in the US asylum system in the latest episode of Ask a Feminist.
Ida Applebroog – Emetic Fields (1985)
Artist Statement I made use of medical data as titles. An emetic is a substance that brings on vomiting. I used two people whom we connect to power, namely a surgeon and royalty. The surgeon who may be in the middle of a heart attack. A queen (Queen Elizabeth) with really no power (besides, she […]
Summer 2019 (vol. 44, no. 4)
The summer 2019 issue of Signs is now available online from the University of Chicago Press. The table of contents is as follows: Reproducing Racial Fictions: Critical Meditations on (a) Lesbian Pregnancy Emily Alyssa Owens Feminism against Biocapitalism: Gestational Surrogacy and the Limits of the Labor Paradigm Johanna Oksala Pinkwashing the “Honor Crime”: Murdered Muslim Women […]
Short Takes: Stephanie Land’s Maid
Sheila Bapat, Grace Chang, Leigh Gilmore, Evelyn Nakano Glenn, and Emily J. Martin discuss Stephanie Land’s Maid, with a response from the author.
Ask a Feminist: Soraya Chemaly Discusses Feminist Rage with Carla Kaplan and Durba Mitra
Feminist journalist, media critic, and activist Soraya Chemaly joins Carla Kaplan and Durba Mitra for an in-depth discussion of feminist rage. Their wide-ranging conversation covers many aspects of contemporary women’s rage: the Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation process, the furor over Serena Williams’s US Open final, and how to differentiate progressive anger from the reactionary anger that has fueled the Right, including the rise of Trump.
Gender and the Rise of the Global Right (Spring 2019; vol. 44, no. 3)
Gender and the Rise of the Global Right, a special issue edited by Agniezska Graff, Ratna Kapur, and Suzanna Danuta Walters, is now available.
Doris Salcedo – Shibboleth (2007)
Artist Statement Shibboleth is a subterranean chasm that stretches the length of the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. The concrete walls of the crevice are ruptured by a steel mesh fence, creating a tension between these elements that resist yet depend on one another. By making the floor the principal focus of the project, Salcedo […]