Michael Kimmel and Lisa Wade discuss toxic masculinity, the rise of Donald Trump and white grievance politics, and gender’s role in neo-Nazi and other hate groups.
Toxic Masculinity: A Conversation with Michael Kimmel and Lisa Wade
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Hillary Clinton’s What Happened
Susan Bordo, Ana Marie Cox, Daisy Hernandez, and Dana Nelson provide feminist perspectives on Hillary Clinton’s What Happened.
Ellen Driscoll – The Loophole of Retreat (1990-91)
Artist Statement Based on Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this piece takes its title from a chapter in her book. The installation invites viewers into the central camera obscura one at a time. In the pitch-dark interior, rocked by slight movement of the cone’s round form, the viewer’s eyes dilate […]
Autumn 2017 (vol. 43, no. 1)
The Autumn 2017 issue of Signs is available from the University of Chicago Press. Articles No Way Out of the Binary: A Critical History of the Scientific Production of Sex Veronica Sanz Plasticity and Programming: Feminism and the Epigenetic Imaginary Sarah S. Richardson “Other Mothers,” Migration, and a Transnational Nurturing Nexus Alexia Bloch Reproducing Jane: […]
Susan Bordo’s The Destruction of Hillary Clinton
Nell Painter, Carmen Rios, and Marjorie Spruill discuss Susan Bordo’s book The Destruction of Hillary Clinton, with a response from Bordo.
Laura Kipnis’s Unwanted Advances
Jaclyn Friedman, Kelly Oliver, Claire Potter, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, and Lisa Wade discuss Laura Kipnis’s new book Unwanted Advances, with a response from Kipnis.
2017 Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship Co-winners Published in Summer 2017 Issue of Signs
Cameron Awkward-Rich and Meghan Healy-Clancy awarded 2017 prize recognizing innovation in the work of emerging feminist scholars.
Gabrielle Le Roux, in collaboration with trans activists – Proudly African & Transgender (2008)
Artist Statement Cocreated during the first ever gathering of and for African trans activists in Cape Town, the work is a creative intervention for social justice, to mark the emergence of an African trans movement and honor the people from seven countries who chose to participate. After drawing them from life, I invited each […]