Leading off this issue of Signs is Anna Hájková’s “Sexual Barter in Times of Genocide: Negotiating the Sexual Economy of the Theresienstadt Ghetto,” the winner of the 2013 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship. The article draws on archival material, memoirs, and interview data to relate a remarkable story about gender power in a […]
On the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Signs would like to highlight some of the work on reproductive rights and reproductive justice that has been published in the journal, emphasizing in particular how feminist scholarship has broadened the conversations around abortion in ways that both insist on the necessity of access to abortion and […]
In anticipation of the Modern Language Association’s 2013 Convention and its theme, “Avenues of Access,” we would like to highlight some content of particular interest to conference attendees, as well as information about Signs’ presence at the conference. First, we are offering open access to two recent articles. Ellen Samuels’s “Examining Millie and Christine McKoy: […]
Stills from Madeline Anderson’s documentary film I Am Somebody (1969) appear on the cover of the Winter 2013 issue of Signs (volume 38, number 2), which contains an article by Shilyh Warren that discusses the film in depth. Artist Statement The kinship I felt toward the women of I Am Somebody compelled me to translate […]
The articles in Signs’s Winter 2013 issue span a range of disciplines, theoretical vantage points, and topics of study. Jonneke Koomen’s “Without These Women, the Tribunal Cannot Do Anything” explores the limits justice revealed in the nexus of prosecutors, translators, and survivors of genocide, among others, during the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Megan Moodie […]
Signs will have several events at the National Women’s Studies Association’s upcoming annual conference, Feminism Unbound: Imagining a Feminist Future, November 8-11, 2012. Join Signs editor in chief Mary Hawkesworth, along with the editors of several other leading feminist journals, for the panel “Academic Publishing in Women’s Studies: Journals” on Friday, November 9, from 9:25-10:40 […]
Artist Statement Ebru Özseçen, Şerbet (1999-2010), installation view, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University (2012). 16 mm film installation. Photo by Dot Paolo. Courtesy of the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art and the artist. Artist Statement:{{1}} Şerbet (1999-2010) The film shows a stack of Burma Baklava saturated with syrup like a cascading skyscraper. Şerbet, “sugared water” […]
Artist Statement Shahzia Sikander, stills from SpiNN (2003). Video animation. Courtesy of the artist. Shahzia Sikander, stills from The Last Post (2010). HD video animation, 10 minutes. Courtesy of the artist. Artist Statement: The digital animation SpiNN (2003) is a pun on the cable channel CNN. It depicts a mass of spiraling, abstracted forms, hovering like […]
Artist Statement Shiva Ahmadi, Oil Barrel #9 (2009). Oil on steel, 34 1/2 x 23 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. Collection of Howard and Maryam Newman, Courtesy of the Leila Heller Gallery, New York, and the artist. Shiva Ahmadi, Hades (2011). Mixed media, 80 × 60 in. Courtesy of Leila Heller Gallery, New York, and the artist. […]
