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Teachable Signs Articles
Accompanying Suzanna Danuta Walters’s Currents essay, “In Defense of Identity Politics“
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What Is Identity Politics? | 2016 Election | Political Economy & Intersectionality | Poststructuralist & Queer
Intersectionality
James Bliss, “Black Feminism Out of Place,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 41, no. 4 (2016): 727–49.
Wini Breines, “What’s Love Got to Do with It? White Women, Black Women, and Feminism in the Movement Years,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 27, no. 4 (2002): 1095–1133.
Anna Carastathis, “Identity Categories as Potential Coalitions,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38, no. 4 (2013): 941–65.
Tamar W. Carroll, “Intersectionality and Identity Politics: Cross-Identity Coalitions for Progressive Social Change,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 42, no. 3 (2017): 600–607.
Sumi Cho, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, and Leslie McCall, “Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38, no. 4 (2013): 785–810.
Jennifer Jihye Chun, George Lipsitz, and Young Shin, “Intersectionality as a Social Movement Strategy: Asian Immigrant Women Advocates,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38, no. 4 (2013): 917–40.
Deborah K. King, “Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14, no. 1 (1988): 42–72.
Aída Hurtado, “Relating to Privilege: Seduction and Rejection in the Subordination of White Women and Women of Color,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14, no. 4 (1989): 833–55.
Leslie McCall, “The Complexity of Intersectionality,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 30, no. 3 (2005): 1771–1800.
Shuddhabrata Sengupta, “I/Me/Mine–Intersectional Identities as Negotiated Minefields,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 31, no. 3 (Spring 2006): 629–39.
Susan Stanford Friedman, “Beyond White and Other: Relationality and Narratives of Race in Feminist Discourse,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 21, no. 1 (Autumn 1995): 1–49.
Paula Stewart Brush, “Problematizing the Race Consciousness of Women of Color,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 27, no. 1 (Autumn 2001): 171–98.
Mieke Verloo, “Intersectional and Cross-Movement Politics and Policies: Reflections on Current Practices and Debates,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38, no. 4 (2013): 893–915.
Feminist Politics and the Subject of Feminism
Bruce Baum, “Feminist Politics of Recognition,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 29, no. 4 (2004): 1073–1102.
Seyla Benhabib, “Sexual Difference and Collective Identities: The New Global Constellation,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 24, no. 2 (1999): 335–61.
Susan J. Carroll and Suzanna Walters, “Ask a Feminist: A Conversation with Susan J. Carroll on Gender and Electoral Politics,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2016.
Listen to the conversation:
Nancy Fraser and Nancy A. Naples, “To Interpret the World and to Change It: An Interview with Nancy Fraser,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 29, no. 4 (2004): 1103–24.
Sandra Harding, “The Instability of the Analytical Categories of Feminist Theory,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 11, no. 4 (1986): 645–64.
Cressida J. Heyes, “Feminist Solidarity after Queer Theory: The Case of Transgender,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28, no. 4 (2003): 1093–1120.
Eléonore Lépinard, “The Contentious Subject of Feminism: Defining Women in France from the Second Wave to Parity,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 32, no. 2 (2007): 375–403.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “‘Under Western Eyes’ Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28, no. 2 (2003): 499–535.
Henrietta L. Moore, “Difference and Recognition: Postmillennial Identities and Social Justice,” Signs:Journal of Women in Culture and Society 25, no. 4 (Summer 2000): 1129–32.
Leila J. Rupp and Verta Taylor, “Forging Feminist Identity in an International Movement: A Collective: Identity: Approach to Twentieth Century Feminism,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 24, no. 2 (1999): 363–86.
Iris Marion Young, “Gender as Seriality: Thinking about Women as a Social Collective,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 19, no. 3 (1994): 713–38.
Linda M. G. Zerilli, “Toward a Feminist Theory of Judgment,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 34, no. 2 (2009): 295–317.
Poststructuralism and Essentialism
Linda Martín Alcoff, “Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 13, no. 3 (1988): 405–36.
Maggie Berg, “Luce Irigaray’s ‘Contradictions’: Poststructuralism and Feminism,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 17, no. 1 (1991): 50–70.
Rita Felski, “The Doxa of Difference,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 23, no. 1 (1997): 1–21.
Jane Flax, “Postmodernism and Gender Relations in Feminist Theory,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 12, no. 4 (1987): 621–43.
Paula M. L. Moya, “Chicana Feminism and Postmodernist Theory,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 26, no. 2 (2001): 441–83.
Shane Phelan, “(Be)Coming Out: Lesbian Identity and Politics,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 18, no. 4 (Summer 1993): 765–90.