Signs is pleased to announce the launch of Signs@40: Feminist Scholarship through Four Decades. To celebrate Signs‘ fortieth year of publication, this project uses digital techniques to explore the journal’s archive, the changes in the journal’s content over time, and its role in shaping the field of Women’s, Gender, and Feminist Studies. An interactive Topic Model […]
Artist Statement: This piece was inspired by two stories Mason heard on the radio at the time of the Truth and Reconciliation hearings. They told of the execution of two liberation movement cadres by the security police. One was Harold Sefola, who as Mason relates, “asked permission to sing Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika” before he was […]
The most recent issue of Signs (available on JSTOR) begins with a Comparative Perspectives Symposium on “Gendered Bodies in the Protest Sphere,” edited by Miranda Outman-Kramer and Susana Galán. Inspired by the wave of grassroots protests that swept the world beginning in 2011, this symposium sets out to consider the politics of the protesting body—a […]
The University of Chicago Press has recently announced the next home of the Signs editorial office. Under the leadership of Professors Suzanna Danuta Walters and Carla Kaplan, the Signs editorial office will be housed at Northeastern University, beginning in 2015. The longstanding tradition of rotating the editorship of Signs ensures that new voices and perspectives […]
To mark the 109th annual conference of the American Sociological Association, which will feature many Signs authors, Signs is making three articles freely available for a limited period. These recent articles, all written by conference attendees, demonstrate the conceptual and methodological innovations of feminist research on economic inequality published in Signs, as well as its […]
A new issue of Films for the Feminist Classroom, an online, open-access journal of films reviews, lesson plans, and other essays, has just been published. This issue marks the first to be published under the auspices of the Department of Women’s Studies at Texas Woman’s University and the editorship of Agatha Beins. FFC, which was formerly housed in the […]
Artist Statement In The Collapse of PAL (eulogy, obsequies and requiem for the planes of blue phosphorus), the Angel of History (as described by Walter Benjamin) reflects on the PAL (phase alternating line) signal and its termination. This death sentence, although executed in silence, was a brutally violent act that left PAL disregarded and obsolete. […]
The Summer 2014 issue of Signs (available on JSTOR) begins with a comparative perspective symposium on the theme of “Gender, Media, and Social Change,” edited by Christina Dunbar-Hester. Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh opens the symposium with an exploration of how the Iranian women’s movement turned to virtual spaces to forge connections between different social groups and to […]
To accompany the comparative perspectives symposium on “Translation, Feminist Scholarship, and the Hegemony of English” in the latest issue, Signs and the University of Chicago Press are making available versions of five of the symposium essays in international languages as an online-only special feature. Francine Descarries’s “Language Is Not Neutral” is available in French, Lola Sánchez’s “Translations That […]
Artist Statement: In 2009 Kim Anno led a team of professors, students, and artists to create a national conference–Rising Tide, the Arts and Ecological Ethics–between the California College of the Arts and Stanford University. This experience transformed her own artistic practice. In 2011 she attended Cop 17 in Durban, while making a film with young […]
