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Forthcoming in Signs

Vol. 48, no. 3 – Spring 2023 

A Note from the Editor
Suzanna Danuta Walters

Articles
Contending with Paradox: Feminist Investments in Gender Training
Aiko Holvikivi

The Report, or, Whatever Happened to Third World Feminist Theory?
Durba Mitra

Double-Edged Care: Toward a Politics of Care Justice
Nell Lake

Beyond the State: Abortion Care Activism in Peru
Deirdre Niamh Duffy, Cordelia Freeman, and Sandra Rodríguez Castañeda

Red Roots of Solidarity: Paula Gunn Allen and the Queer Audiences of Intellectual Sovereignty

“Be Soft Like Water, Little Woman”: Cultivating Postfeminism in Elena Gambino
Postsocialist China
Anna Iskra

The Fabric of Resistance: Care, Domestic Objects, and HIV Self-Narratives in the Work of Kia LaBeija and Jessica Whitbread
Kate Manlik, Jane Simon, and Nicole Matthews

A Report on the Academic Job Market in Gender, Women’s, Sexuality, Feminist and Queer Studies 2006-2018
Jigna Desai and Elizabeth A. Wilson

Feminist Frictions
Forged in Fire: Constructing Women’s Studies Knowledge for Social Engagement, 1979-2019
Sally L. Kitch

Book Review
Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry. By Angela Jones.
Gregory Mitchell


Vol. 48, no. 4 – Summer 2023

A Note from the Editor
Suzanna Danuta Walters

Articles
Espanta Ciügeñas: Abortion in the Years before Roe v. Wade
Lina-Maria Murillo
Winner of the 2023 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship

Anti-Genderism and White Feminist Reconstructions in Germany
Jana Cattien

Sexual Governmentality and the Woman at/as Risk in Revolutionary Egypt
Susana Galán

The Insurgent Agency of Incarcerated Trans Women of Color
Joss Greene

Perverting the Archives: Feminist Aftercare in the Dorothy Allison Papers
Sarah Heying

Speaking of Failure: Modern Masculinity and Medieval Confession
Jennifer Garrison

“SUBJECT’s Wife”: Gender, Anticommunism, and Black Women Activists in Early Cold War Chicago
Morgan E. Barry

Caring for a Responsible Self: Migrant Motherhood and the Politics of Reproduction
Sofia Ugarte/em>

The Marriage of Care Labor and Self-Care: Marriage Migration and Neoliberal Refashioning of Care in South Korea
Suyun Choi

Streaming Prosthetic Feminism: Mrs. America’s Cool Feminism and Anti-Feminist Celebrity
Anthea Taylor and Margaret Henderson

Book Reviews
Birthing Black Mothers. By Jennifer Nash.
Shoniqua Roach

Lesbian Potentiality & Feminist Media in the 1970s. By Rox Samer.
Mairead Sullivan

Policing Bodies – Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg by I. India Thusi.
Amanda Gouws


Vol. 47, no. 2 – Winter 2022 

Feminist Frictions
Dereliction, Due Process, and Decorum: The Crises of Title IX
Catharine Stimpson 

Articles
Gender Skepticism, Trans Livability, and Feminist Critique
Sanna Emilia Karhu 

Reconquering Spain: Gender and the Rise of the Far Right
Marta Cabezas Fernandez

Semiotic Violence against Women: Theorizing Harms against Female Politicians
Mona Lena Krook

 Narratives of Harm: Accounts and Displacements of Sexual Harassment in Institutional Space
Leila Whitley

Arson Girls, Match-strikers, and Firestarters: A Reflection on Rage, Racialization, and the Carcerality of Girlhood
Jessica R. Calvanico 

Show and Tell: Life History and Hijra Activism in India
Rovel Sequeira 

Islamic Feminisms: A Thematic Cluster Edited by Sophia Pandya and Mary Caputi

Ibn ʿArabī and Mystical Disruptions of Gender: Theoretical Explorations in Islamic Feminism
Sa’diyya Shaikh

Reclaiming Islamic Knowledge and Authority: An Ethnography of the Women’s Shari’a Courts in India
Sophie Schrago 

Neither Emancipation nor Exclusion: Rethinking Politics of Piety through Hanımlara Mahsus Gazete
Ayse Neveser Koker


Vol. 47, no. 3 – Spring 2022

Rise Up in Mirth: On Angry Feminist Humor and Why Taking It Personally Is Political
Emma Jane

Bathroom Realism and the Women of Cable TV
Susan Fraiman 

The Delightfully Scatological Humor of Ali Wong: Cringe Comedy and Neoliberal Maternal Discourse
Sharon Tran

On Intimate Reaches of US Empire: Neoliberal Imperialism and Domestic Abuse in Metro Manila
Huibin Chew

 Labors of Love: Sex, Work, and Good Mothering in the Globalizing City
Gowri Vijayakumar

“Let Your Ovaries Rest”: Pathologizing Hormones in Japan’s New Economy
Y. Cheung

Herbiverous Men, Carniverous Women: Doing Masculinity and Feminity in Japanese “Marriage Hunting”
Anna Woźny 

#MeToo in China: The Dynamic of Digital Activism against Sexual Assault and Harassment in Higher Education
Sara Liao and Luwei Rose Luqiu

Fantasy States: Nationalism, Intimacy, and Transgression in South African Women’s Political Memoirs
Rachel Sandwell

Ask a Feminist

Ask A Feminist: Susan Stryker discusses Trans Studies, Trans Feminism, and a More Trans Future with V Varun Chaudhry
Susan Stryker and V Varun Chaudhry

 

 

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