In tribute to the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela (1918–2013), Signs is offering open access to two articles on the changing, dynamic, inspiring, and still troubling situation in South Africa. Mandela’s extraordinary legacy—of the overthrow of apartheid and transition to democracy, of the unheralded, ongoing process of truth and reconciliation—stands as an inspiration to anyone […]
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Lucien Kubo – Japanese American Internment (2005)
Lucien Kubo’s work appeared on the Winter 2014 issue of Signs. Artist Statement: I am a Sansei, a third-generation Japanese American. An important part of my life experience is that of my parents, their family, and over 120,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated in internment camps during World War II. I think of my art as philosophical, historical, […]
Winter 2014 (vol. 39, no. 2)
This issue of Signs begins with two articles analyzing the literature of Japanese American internment, Sarah Dowling’s “‘How Lucky I Was to Be Free and Safe at Home’: Reading Humor in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660” and Cynthia Wu’s “Asian American Feminism’s Alliances with Men: Reading Hisaye Yamamoto’s ‘Seventeen Syllables.’” Dowling and Wu propose modes of […]
Signs at the 2013 National Women’s Studies Association Conference
There are two opportunities to speak with Signs editors at the upcoming NWSA conference, Negotiating Points of Encounter. At the workshop “Academic Publishing in Women’s Studies: Journals,” Signs editor in chief Mary Hawkesworth will join editors of other top women’s studies journals–Gail Cohee of Feminist Teacher, Sandra Soto of Feminist Formations, and Ashwini Tambe of Feminist […]
Responding to the Recent Spate of Anti-Roma News Stories
Over the past several months, mainstream media outlets in the European Union and United States have generated a resurgence of stories about the Roma that reinscribe racializing stereotypes and essentialist claims of cultural backwardness. Cases of suspected child abduction, deportation of Romani immigrants (and subsequent protests), and their illicitly acquired wealth have been afforded an intensified […]
Highlights for the 2013 Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference
The second Critical Ethnic Studies Association conference, which will feature presentations from many Signs authors, begins tomorrow. As scholars and activists at the conference grapple with the historical ruptures, epistemic breaks, and everyday violences produced by racism and colonization, Signs is providing open access to two articles from our recent special issue “Women, Gender, and […]
Toni Bowers and Natasha Ward – Detail from an Untitled Composition (2011)
Toni Bowers and Natasha Ward’s work appeared on the Autumn 2013 issue of Signs (vol. 39, no. 1), a special issue titled “Women, Gender, and Prison: National and Global Perspectives.” Artist Statements: Toni Bowers: Being able to express my inner/outer feelings through art was something I had never experienced before. It was a way of an […]
Women, Gender, and Prison: National and Global Perspectives (Autumn 2013; vol. 39, no.1)
The past forty years have witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of women imprisoned worldwide; over half a million women are now incarcerated, and the growth rate of women’s imprisonment has outstripped that of men’s. Despite neoliberal commitments to cut back the state, many states have dramatically increased spending on policing and imprisonment at […]
Highlights for the American Sociological Association’s 2013 Annual Meeting
In light of the fact that the 108th annual conference of the American Sociological Association kicks off in New York at the end of this week, Signs is making freely available, for a limited period, two articles of interest to ASA members, or to anyone with an interest in feminist sociology. These two articles demonstrate […]
The latest issue of Films for the Feminist Classroom is now available online!
The Summer 2013 issue is now available here. This issue’s special feature, Women, Education, and Activism, edited by Anne Keefe, contains two interviews paired with film reviews: An Interview with Charlotte Bunch by Alyssa Rorke followed by a review of Passionate Politics: The Life and Work of Charlotte Bunch by Mary Hawkesworth, and An Interview […]