Cover of Signs 37, no. 2, featuring Paula Rego’s The Policeman’s Daughter (1987).
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 gaps. Focusing on what the revolution (more often than not defined in retrospect) leaves out or indefinitely defers is one of the surest ways to comprehend what the revolution leaves in place.” Articles in this issue explore specific revolutionary movements within the context of feminist concerns about the body, gender, time, and political, legal, and geographical space. Together, Rothwell points out, “the articles in this volume are part of a stock-taking, informed by a common desire to understand how feminist approaches across the disciplines have enriched the way we understand the world in which we live.”
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The full table of contents is as follows:
Unfinished Revolutions: A Special Issue
Edited by Phillip Rothwell
Introduction: Unfinished Revolutions: Gaps and Conjunctions
Phillip Rothwell
Gendered Corporeality and Bare Lives: Local Sacrifices and Sufferings during the Vietnam War
Helle Rydstøm
Revolutionary Time: Revolt as Temporal Return
Fanny Söderbäck
Imagining Radical Women in Interwar Japan: Leftist and Feminist Perspectives
Angela Coutts
The Beauty and the Loser: Cultural Representations of Gender in Late State Socialism
Libora Oates-Indruchová
Bringing the Second World In: Conservative Revolution(s), Socialist Legacies, and Transnational Silences in the Trajectories of Polish Feminism
Magdalena Grabowska
A Revolution in the Binary? Gender and the Oxymoron of Revolutionary War in Cuba and Nicaragua
Lorraine Bayard de Volo
Decolonization and Gender and Sexual Dissidence in Postindependence Namibia
Ashley Currier
Judges of Normality: Mediating Marriage in the Family Courts of Kolkata, India
Srimati Basu
A Revolution Reconsidered? Examining the Practice of Qualitative Research in Feminist Scholarship
Sara O’Shaughnessy and Naomi T. Krogman