Signs is currently seeking submissions for a special issue titled Complexities of Care and Caring, coedited by Linda Blum, Martha Albertson Fineman, and Amber Jamilla Musser. The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2021. See the full call here.
Signs always accepts submissions for regular issues.
The Summer 2014 issue of Signs (available on JSTOR) begins with a comparative perspective symposium on the theme of “Gender, Media, and Social Change,” edited by Christina Dunbar-Hester. Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh opens the symposium with an exploration of how the Iranian women’s movement turned to virtual spaces to forge connections between different social groups and to […]
To accompany the comparative perspectives symposium on “Translation, Feminist Scholarship, and the Hegemony of English” in the latest issue, Signs and the University of Chicago Press are making available versions of five of the symposium essays in international languages as an online-only special feature. Francine Descarries’s “Language Is Not Neutral” is available in French, Lola Sánchez’s “Translations That […]
This issue (available on JSTOR) begins with a comparative perspectives symposium on the theme of “Translation, Feminist Scholarship, and the Hegemony of English.” Claudia de Lima Costa and Sonia Alvarez open the symposium by signaling the importance of translation, conceived both linguistically and ontologically, to contemporary decolonial feminisms, and they examine the role of academic […]
Recent news reports detail a pattern of horrifying abuse at Alabama’s Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women. Artists Toni Bowers and Natasha Ward, whose work appears on the cover of Signs’s special issue on Women, Gender, and Prison are inmates in this institution. Their work, their artists’s statement, and their bios are testimony to their extraordinary […]
Signs is very pleased to announce that Nadieszda Kizenko has been awarded the Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture‘s 2013 Distinguished Article Prize for her Signs article “Feminized Patriarchy? Orthodoxy and Gender in Post-Soviet Russia.” Please join us in congratulating her! Kizenko’s article investigates the tensions facing religious women in contemporary Russia. Kizenko […]
The Feminist Digital Pedagogies Conference, hosted by the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, will take place in New Brunswick, NJ, next week, on January 23 and 24. The conference will be streamed live, starting at 1 pm on Thursday, on the department’s website, and updates will be available through its Facebook page as well […]
