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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jennifer Baumgardner, Brittney Cooper, Carla Kaplan, Patricia J. Williams, and Naomi Wolf offer commentaries on Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay.
Artist Statement As an antithesis to advertising, art can be a catalyst for the important conversations about life. I began making street art in 2007 to combat marketing schemes, which objectify women rather than show them as active participates in society. Placing art in the streets allows me to create a discussion about art […]
The summer 2015 issue of Signs (vol. 40, no. 4) is now available on JSTOR! The issue opens with Mimi Thi Nguyen’s “The Hoodie as Sign, Screen, Expectation, and Force,” a meditation on the valences of the hoodie in the aftermath of Trayvon Martin’s murder. Through the hoodie, Nguyen explores the colonial racial optics that […]
Artist Statement Robes or shoes, even underclothing, possess infinite varieties of types, styles, and colors, which can be mixed together in a multitude of ways. Besides being implicated in body politics or serving as symbols and declarations of identity, they are also capable of achieving a kind of state of mind. They add value to […]
The Spring 2015 issue of Signs contains the winner of the 2015 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship (Venla Oikonnen’s article “Mitochondrial Eve and the Affective Politics of Human Ancestry”), a cluster of articles on Feminist Sinologies (edited by Nan Z. Da and Wang Zheng), and the inaugural editorial from the new editor of […]
Artist Statement: Let go with me Make room for Joy! The weightlessness of forgiveness Seeks peace With love – Maya Freelon Asante Artist Biography: Maya Freelon Asante is an award‐winning artist whose work was described by poet Maya Angelou as “visualizing the truth about the vulnerability and power of the human being”; her unique tissue […]
The Winter 2015 issue of Signs begins with a comparative perspective symposium titled “Politics of the Sensing Subject: Gender, Perception, Art,” edited and introduced by Anne Keefe. The symposium is inspired by the new centrality of affective studies in feminist theorizations of subjectivity, embodiment, politics, and social change. The five essays in the symposium demonstrate […]
