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Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family
Why Are We Now Talking about “Unfinished Business”? Heather Boushey The Unfinished Business of Race and Gender at Work Kimberly Freeman Brown Strengthening the Case for Policies to Support Caregiving Stephanie Coontz The Feminist Business Nancy Folbre Only the State, Not Benevolent Employers, Can Ensure Work-Family Balance Kathleen Geier Having It All Is Not a […]
Andi Arnovitz – The Commerce of Infertility (2013)
Artist Statement: The piece was inspired by several events. Two movies, in Canada the movie Starbuck and in the United States the movie Delivery Man, both based on actual stories where sperm banks carelessly used the same sperm over and over, creating a situation where the same man fathered hundreds of children. A Montreal […]
Winter 2016 (vol. 41, no. 2)
The winter 2016 issue of Signs (vol. 41, no. 2) features the call for papers for the 2017 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship. Submissions are due March 1, 2016. The issue begins with Ara Wilson’s “The Infrastructure of Intimacy.” By shedding light on the connections between the intimate and the infrastructural, Wilson proposes […]
Judith Scott – Untitled (2003-4)
Statement Using a shopping cart as a base, this sculpture is the largest and most complex in Scott’s body of work. The cart is used as a container for several smaller, unfinished sculptures, yet is presented as a larger baroque work on its own terms. The missing front wheels of the cart keep the […]
Katha Pollitt’s Pro
A Broad Argument, Narrowly Targeted Michelle Kinsey Bruns With Pro, Katha Pollitt Gives the Abortion Rights Movement Its Modern Credo Jill Filipovic The End of the Single-Issue Struggle Dani McClain Unmuddling the Muddled Middle: Pollitt’s Passionate Call to Action Eesha Pandit Let’s Talk about Sex, Not Abortion Loretta Ross Reproductive Justice 101 Rickie Solinger A […]
Shatema Threadcraft Wins 2015 Okin-Young Award
Signs and the University of Chicago Press are pleased to announce that Shatema Threadcraft’s article “Intimate Injustice, Political Obligation, and the Dark Ghetto” has been awarded the 2015 Okin-Young Award, which recognizes the best paper on feminist political theory published in an English-language academic journal during the previous calendar year. In celebration, the University of Chicago […]
Devorah Sperber – After Picasso (Gertrude Stein) (2006)
Artist Statement After Picasso (Gertrude Stein) debuted in Sperber’s 2007 solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, Eye of the Artist: The Work of Devorah Sperber, which then traveled to Mass Moca, Boise Art Museum, Knoxville Museum of Art, and Kimball Art Center. Interested in the links between art, science, and technology through the ages, Sperber […]
Autumn 2015 (vol. 41, no. 1)
The Autumn 2015 issue of Signs is now available on JSTOR. In addition to a host of articles, the issue also contains a call for papers for the 2017 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship. The issue begins with Marie E. Berry’s analysis of Rwanda’s efforts to improve women’s status in the twenty years […]