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 […]
Video of the Signs@40: Feminist Scholarship through Four Decades event held at Rutgers University’s Douglass Library is below. Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, speakers explore the history of feminist publishing and the use of digital humanities techniques to map the field. Hosted by Professor Mary Hawkesworth, outgoing Editor […]
This editorial by Suzanna Danuta Walters, the incoming editor of Signs, will appear in the Spring 2015 issue. It is with great pride and pleasure that I join the distinguished ranks of editors of Signs. Along with my colleague Carla Kaplan, who will serve as Chair of the Board of Associate Editors, I am excited to begin […]
Editors from Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society will be holding several events at the upcoming National Women’s Studies Association conference, Feminist Transgressions, which will provide opportunities to discuss the world of feminist academic publishing and hear pragmatic advice from experts in the field. Saturday, November 15: Chat with Signs Editors: Join Signs Deputy Editor […]
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 […]
