We are thrilled to announce that the latest issue of Films for the Feminist Classroom is now available at http://www.signs.rutgers.edu/ffc_home.html. In this issue’s special feature, edited and introduced by Agatha Beins, scholars and activists discuss their pedagogical approaches for using films in the 21st-century classroom. Focused on engaging and unconventional methods that resonate with students, […]
Signs’s Autumn 2012 issue begins with a symposium on Romani Feminisms, edited by Ethel C. Brooks. Bringing together scholars and activists, the symposium examines the complex ways that Romani women and feminists are positioned in relation to states, communities, and nongovernmental organizations, as well as their multivalent responses to such positionings. In response to the […]
The University of Chicago Press is pleased to announce the award of the 2013 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship to Anna Hájková, a PhD candidate in History at the University of Toronto. Named in honor of the Founding Editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, the Catharine Stimpson Prize is […]
Lisa A. Turngren’s 2-Way Mirror was featured on the Summer 2012 issue of Signs, “Sex: A Thematic Issue.” Artist Statement As a medium, collage has always allowed me to speak about concepts and content that lie on the surface (manifest) and below (latent). It is a form that lends itself to tricking the eye and […]
Taking an expansive approach to the many valences of “sex,” this issue brings together perspectives from sociologists, historians, anthropologists, and science studies scholars to consider the emergence of sex as a category, its surprising geographical and historical variability, and its imbrication with processes of regulation, racialization, and commodification. The issue challenges any attempt to ground […]
This issue features a comparative perspectives symposium titled “Fish/Wives: Gender, Representation, and Agency in Coastal Communities,” edited by Valerie Burton. The symposium includes historical essays, ethnographic studies of contemporary fishing communities, and analyses of representations of fish/wives. Essays track historical and contemporary gendered labor practices and representations in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. […]
Stacey Steers’s Fish Dream appeared on the cover of the Spring 2012 issue of Signs (volume 37, number 3), which featured a comparative perspectives symposium titled “Fish/Wives: Gender, Representation, and Agency in Coastal Communities,” edited by Valerie Burton. Artist Statement Fish Dream is a still from my animated film, Phantom Canyon, which was created from […]
Paula Rego’s The Policeman’s Daughter appeared on the Winter 2012 issue of Signs (volume 37, number 2), the “Unfinished Revolutions” special issue edited by Phillip Rothwell. Biographical Statement Born in Lisbon in 1935, Paula Rego studied at the Slade School of Art in the 1950s. In 1976, she moved permanently to England, where she eventually […]
Signs’s Winter 2012 issue is a special issue featuring feminist explorations of the intricacies of unfinished revolutions. In his introduction to the issue, guest editor Phillip Rothwell claims that “when assessing any revolution—whether it explicitly seeks political, aesthetic, or epistemological transformation—feminist experience teaches us that it is often best to analyze by looking for the […]
Judith F. Baca’s Uprising of the Mujeres appeared on the Autumn 2011 issue of Signs (volume 37, number 1), which featured a comparative perspectives symposium titled “Gloria E. Anzaldúa, An International Perspective,” edited by Norma E. Cantú. Artist Statement I want to produce artwork that has meaning beyond simple decorative values. I hope to […]
