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Building infrastructures of abortion care in an un-caring state: acompañante's carework and abortion access in Peru. Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Deirdre Duffy,Cordelia Freeman,Sandra Rodríguez
For abortion seekers, Peru is an uncaring state where legal and policy interventions have resulted in violence, persecution, and neglect. This state of abortion uncare is set within historic and ongoing denials of reproductive autonomy, coercive reproductive care, and the marginalisation of abortion. Abortion is not supported, even where legally permissible. Here we explore abortion care activism within
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Rise Up in Mirth: On Angry Feminist Humor and Why Taking It Personally Is Political Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Emma A. Jane
We’ve all heard the one about the angry feminist killjoy. But what about the angry feminist killjoy who also cracks jokes? While a rich vein of enraged feminist humor currently proliferates in popular media, the use of comedy is divisive in feminism. In addition to being framed as potentially diluting righteous feminist anger, such levity could all too easily be dismissed as a surface-level “popular
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Ask a Feminist: Susan Stryker Discusses Trans Studies, Trans Feminism, and a More Trans Future with V Varun Chaudhry Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Susan Stryker,V Varun Chaudhry
In this conversation, transgender studies scholars Susan Stryker and V Varun Chaudhry discuss the emergence of the field of transgender studies and its continued relevance and necessity today. First, Stryker discusses some of the key texts central to the emergence of transgender studies in the late 1980s and early 1990s, contextualizing these texts within a broader political context. Stryker then tells
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The Delightfully Scatological Humor of Ali Wong: Cringe Comedy and Neoliberal Maternal Discourse Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Sharon Tran
This essay grapples with how Asian American women have been increasingly positioned as the idealized maternal subjects of a neoliberal world order. The “tiger mother,” as popularized by Amy Chua, can be considered a recent gendered, racial formation produced in direct opposition to the “Black welfare mother” as a figure of pathological reproductive excess and dependency. Yet this latest twenty-first-century
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Fantasy States: Nationalism, Intimacy, and Transgression in South African Women’s Political Memoirs Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Rachel Sandwell
This article reads a set of South African women’s political memoirs as both propaganda pieces and fantasy texts. Inspired by Joan W. Scott’s recent explorations of feminist fantasy, the article draws attention to a set of scenes that recur across diverse political memoirs: scenes of interracial physical and domestic intimacy and scenes of collective national voyaging. Reading these depictions as fantasies
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Herbivorous Men, Carnivorous Women: Doing Masculinity and Femininity in Japanese “Marriage Hunting” Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Anna Woźny
While recent advances in theories of hybrid masculinities have shown new avenues for gender domination afforded to young men, they have left undertheorized the role of femininity in these negotiations of gender regimes. This article offers a relational framework for understanding how femininity is incorporated in the construction of hybrid masculinities and how hybrid femininity and masculinity, codefined
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Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought. By Durba Mitra. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Lucinda Ramberg
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“Let Your Ovaries Rest”: Pathologizing Hormones in Japan’s New Economy Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 S. Y. Cheung
This article analyzes the twenty-first-century adoption of the hormonal contraceptive pill in Japan, where it was not legalized until 1999. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Tokyo, this research combines close readings of popular health media with ethnographic analysis to argue that in the context of a society suffering from low fertility, reproductive health actors, including pharmaceutical representatives
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Bathroom Realism and the Women of Cable TV Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Susan Fraiman
Who gets The Real in realism? Taking as case studies three women-centered cable TV shows, this essay aims to renegotiate the terms of realism along feminist lines. In their focus on the ordinary and domestic, on proximate bodies and intimate conversations, Broad City, Insecure, and Girls echo the quotidian concerns of the nineteenth-century realist novel. Beyond this, in their signature use of the
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Labors of Love: Sex, Work, and Good Mothering in the Globalizing City Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Gowri Vijayakumar
While feminist scholarship has worked to expand theorizations of sex work as reproductive labor, fewer scholars elaborate on sex workers’ role in caring work as mothers. This article draws on interviews with fifty-two cisgender women sex workers in Bangalore to argue that, for them, sex work is central to being a good mother, in a context of increasing economic precarity combined with intensified demands
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A Note from the Editor Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Suzanna Danuta Walters
s we slip into our second pandemic year—and as the forces of nihilism seem to close in on us—I am reminded of the words of the wonderful acA tivist and poet Grace Paley, who urged us to “go forthwith fear and courage and rage to save theworld.” I remain as convinced as ever that the feminist scholarship reflected in the pages of this journal—and the activist work expressed here and in our Feminist
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On Intimate Reaches of US Empire: Neoliberal Imperialism and Domestic Abuse in Metro Manila Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Huibin A. Chew
Research shows that political economy—the structural distribution of a society’s economic resources as shaped by power inequalities—is linked to the incidence of domestic abuse as well as survivors’ success in escaping abusive relationships. Yet studies often overlook the extent to which domestic abuse in the global South is embedded in neocolonial structural violence. Drawing on interviews and surveys
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Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America. By David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 J. Shoshanna Ehrlich
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Performing Work: Maids, Melodrama, and Imitation of Life as Film Noir Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Gwen Bergner
In this article I argue that Douglas Sirk’s maternal melodrama, Imitation of Life (1959), advances an ideology whereby Black women are equated with and consigned to domestic labor. The film features two mother-daughter pairs, one Black and one white. The Black mother, Annie, works as a maid for the white mother. Annie’s light-skinned daughter, Sarah Jane, passes as white to avoid following her mother’s
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Ibn ʿArabī and Mystical Disruptions of Gender: Theoretical Explorations in Islamic Feminism Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Sa’diyya Shaikh
Drawing on the work of thirteenth-century Andalusian Sufi Ibn ʿArabī (d. 1240), this article explores the ways in which mystical ideas present a radically destabilizing view of human nature. Bringing Ibn ʿArabī’s ideas into a contemporary feminist conversation on gender, I theorize gender, arguing that his mystical method pushes the reader to the limits of a binary and patriarchal rationality, resulting
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Reclaiming Religious and Legal Authority: An Ethnography of the Women’s Shari’a Courts in India Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Sophie Schrago
In 2013, the Indian Muslim Women’s Movement (BMMA) established India’s first women’s Shariʿa court with the objective of improving Muslim women’s lives by reclaiming Islamic tradition for the purpose of emancipation. In an attempt to reform the Muslim Personal Law, BMMA has trained women to become Shari’a law judges and to work toward reshaping legal and cultural norms within the community. Through
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Narratives of Harm: Accounts and Displacements of Faculty Sexual Harassment of Students Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Leila Whitley
This article examines two public letters written in response to disclosures of faculty sexual harassment of students, attending to how and where the letters locate understandings of harm. The first of these letters is an institutional public letter released by Goldsmiths, University of London, in response to the disclosure of its history of sexual harassment. The second is an open letter released by
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Semiotic Violence against Women: Theorizing Harms against Female Politicians Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Mona Lena Krook
Definitions of violence are contested, ranging from minimalistic conceptions privileging physical attacks to more comprehensive approaches recognizing a broad array of physical, sexual, psychological, and economic violations. Investigating the phenomenon of violence against women in politics, I theorize semiotic violence as a fifth form of violence against women, one that mobilizes sexist words and
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Dereliction, Due Process, and Decorum: The Crises of Title IX Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Catharine R. Stimpson
Title IX is a crucial, and controversial, piece of federal legislation in the United States. Its purpose was to end sex discrimination, that dereliction from ideals of justice, in education. This essay is a history of Title IX from its beginning to today. It shows the necessity of Title IX, how sexual harassment came under the purview of Title IX, how legal interpretations of Title IX changed, and
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Gender Skepticism, Trans Livability, and Feminist Critique Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Sanna Karhu
This article discusses a recent argument made by a number of Foucauldian feminists that gender is a problematic concept for feminism. They argue that the self-evident status that gender enjoys in current feminist theory and politics is based on the concealment of its historical emergence as a pathologizing discourse in 1950s American psychiatric-sexology, which targeted intersex and trans populations
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Neither Emancipation nor Exclusion: Rethinking Politics of Piety through Hanımlara Mahsus Gazete Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Neveser Köker
In this article, I turn to a late nineteenth-century Ottoman-Muslim women’s periodical, Hanımlara Mahsus Gazete (Ladies’ own gazette) to broaden the scope of transnational feminist genealogies of women’s piety, agency, and political subjectivity. I argue that the writers and editors of the gazette, who were mostly Ottoman-Muslim women, illustrate the subject position of nonpious believers. This position
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Show and Tell: Life History and Hijra Activism in India Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Rovel Sequeira
The late twentieth-century economic liberalization that transformed India from a License Raj to a so-called NGO Raj paralleled a burgeoning interest in Indian hijra communities, aided by discourses about gender/sexuality rights circulating via transnational NGO networks. The opening decades of the twenty-first century witnessed the emergence of multiple life histories written by NGO-based hijra activists
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Silencing Feminism? Gender and the Rise of the Nationalist Far Right in Spain Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Marta Cabezas
Feminism in Spain is experiencing a paradox. On the one hand, the March 8 movement has held two feminist strikes, attended by multitudes. On the other hand, the far Right has entered representative politics, announcing a battle against feminism. With the rapid ascendency of the nationalist far-right party Vox, Spain joins other European countries where the far Right is on the rise. This article’s aim
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Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood. By Michele Goodwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Aziza Ahmed
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Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement. By Katherine M. Marino. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Elisabeth Jay Friedman
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The Little Old Lady Killer: The Sensationalized Crimes of Mexico’s First Female Serial Killer. By Susana Vargas Cervantes. New York: New York University Press, 2019. Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Chris M. Smith
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Arson Girls, Match-Strikers, and Firestarters: A Reflection on Rage, Racialization, and the Carcerality of Girlhood Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Jessica R. Calvanico
This article explores firesetting and its legal manifestation, arson, as a crucial link between girlhood, carcerality, and rage. Beginning with the North Carolina Samarcand Arson Trial of 1931, when twelve girls were charged with the capital offense of arson for burning down the Samarcand Manor State Home and Industrial Training School for Girls, an institution that incarcerated white girls during
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Reproductive Health Care from Fascism to Forza Nuova Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Diana Garvin
This article examines pronatalism from Fascism to Forza Nuova to investigate how far-right political groups in Italy have historically approached reproductive health care. Visual analysis of posters and films read in context with the urbanism of Roman streets and rationalist obstetric clinics clarifies the specific strategies these groups have used to discredit female health-care practitioners and
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Uproarious: How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth. By Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 S. Katherine Cooper
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Feminist Rage: Countering Sexual Violence and Sexual Humiliation Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Dianna Taylor
This essay argues that feminist rage counters sexual humiliation resulting from sexual violence, as well as the gendered power relations that give rise to and legitimize such violence and humiliation. It begins by showing that sexual humiliation manifests within women’s self-relation in ways that inhibit their countering of oppressive, normalizing gendered power relations; normalization here is understood
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Getting Fracked: Gender Politics in Fracking Discourse Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Kristen Abatsis McHenry
Hydraulic fracturing, commonly called “fracking,” refers to the technology used to extract natural gas primarily from shale bedrock. Most of the scholarly and media coverage of the practice, and the growing movement against it, depict fracking in terms of a contentious debate between pro- and antifracking advocates in which both sides claim that their position is supported by scientific evidence regarding
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Femininity and the Paradox of Trust Building in Patriarchies during COVID-19 Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Cynthia Enloe
Sustainable trust building is a crucial yet underanalyzed process, both in its successes and its more common failures. Because the politics of masculinization and feminization play salient roles in so many sustained and unsustained trust-building efforts, it is valuable during any public health crisis anywhere to pay close attention to women as trust builders and to nurses as feminized actors.
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A Moment or a Movement? The Pandemic, Political Upheaval, and Racial Reckoning Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Evelynn M. Hammonds
This essay addresses the COVID-19 pandemic as a moral, political, and cultural crisis. I argue that pandemics do not produce inequalities but rather that they reveal them and they put in sharp relief the work we still have to do as feminist scholars.
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COVID-19 and the Language of Racism Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Sari Altschuler,Priscilla Wald
On May 25, 2020, Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer, murdered George Perry Floyd Jr., and protests erupted in cities and towns across the country. The public health threat of anti-Black police violence in the wake of the pandemic and, more directly, Floyd’s murder led many to describe “twin pandemics” of COVID-19 and racism, a framing that circulated widely. As the analysis emerging from the
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Rules Matter: How Can Professional Associations Remap Intracommunity Norms around Sexual Violence? Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Dianna Shandy,M. Gabriela Torres
This article describes and analyzes the American Anthropological Association’s adoption of a sexual harassment and sexual assault policy as a part of the groundswell of recognition that sexual violence detrimentally shapes scientific inquiry, a recognition catalyzed by the #MeToo cultural moment. This is a case study of what Marcel Mauss terms “policy as total social phenomena,” which narrates a significant
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Building a Feminist Commons in the Time of COVID-19 Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Miriam Ticktin
The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been structured around the idea that human connection and sociality are bad—they are dangerous. This essay suggests that, perhaps paradoxically, rather than isolating to stay healthy, people are forging new egalitarian forms of connection. I argue that COVID-19 has enhanced experiments in what I will call a “burgeoning feminist commons.” These foreground
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Just Responsibility: A Human Rights Theory of Global Justice. By Brooke A. Ackerly. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Elora Halim Chowdhury
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Digital Feminism beyond Nativism and Empire: Affective Territories of Recognition and Competing Claims to Suffering in Iranian Women’s Campaigns Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Sara Tafakori
There has been a growing affective intensity on Farsi social media around Iranian women’s rights protests, particularly mobilizations against the compulsory hijab. This intensity has crystallized into a variety of emotions: the anger, joy, and defiance of Iranian women protesting against the hijab inside the country; the outrage at the injustice these actions communicate; and the anger and anxiety
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Ask a Feminist: Eesha Pandit and Paula Moya Discuss Activism and the Academy with Carla Kaplan and Suzanna Walters Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Eesha Pandit,Paula Moya,Carla Kaplan,Suzanna Walters
The latest installment of Ask a Feminist features nonprofit leader and activist Eesha Pandit and feminist scholar Paula Moya—in conversation with one another and with Signs editor Suzanna Walters and board chair Carla Kaplan—on feminist activism and scholarship, on accountability, coalition, and collaboration.
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A Note from the Editor Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Suzanna Danuta Walters
s I write this, we are a full year into the pandemic, a health crisis that has revealed in ever starker terms the deep disparities at the heart of AmerA ican society. And—no surprise to readers of this journal—women have been hit particularly hard, as the inequities of childcare provision and housework (and women’s disproportionate representation in lower-wage “essential” work) have pushed more and
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Chatbots, Gender, and Race on Web 2.0 Platforms: Tay.AI as Monstrous Femininity and Abject Whiteness Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Zoe Vorsino
In March 2016, Microsoft launched Tay.AI, a chatbot designed to experiment with conversational understanding through direct engagement with social media users. Marketed as the digital representation of an 18–24-year-old, cis-gendered female, Tay.ai was meant to be chatty, personable, friendly, and innocuous. Hours into launch, however, the chatbot’s mimetic programming structure was taken advantage
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Coming of (R)age: A New Genre for Contemporary Narratives about Black Girlhood Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Lashon Daley
The Fits (2015), The Hate U Give (2018), Girlhood (2014), and See You Yesterday (2019) mark a five-year span of contemporary on-screen performances of Black girlhood in the independent, major, international, and small-screen film scenes. In this article, I discuss these films alongside movie posters, a book cover, and casting and music choices in order to pinpoint how Black girls become raged upon
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A New Genealogy of “Intelligent Rage,” or Other Ways to Think about White Women in Feminism Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Jennifer C. Nash,Samantha Pinto
Rage, we argue, has been vividly constructed in multiple academic and popular feminist forums as specifically directed at white women. White women are both the object of rage and the readership that must witness “eloquent rage”—and perhaps even be disciplined by it—in order to transform themselves into good feminist political subjects. In this essay, we examine Black feminist constructions and uses
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Joy, Rage, and Activism: The Gendered Politics of Affect in the Young Lords Party Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Kristie Soares
This article examines the integral role of affect in feminist and decolonial social movements. Looking at the strategic interplay between two affective modes—rage and joy—in the Young Lords’ activism and organizing from 1969 to 1972, it argues that the organization was exceptional in understanding how affect animates and is animated by social movements. Specifically, the article focuses on the Women’s
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“What Real Empowerment Looks Like”: White Rage and the Necropolitics of Armed Womanhood Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Caroline E. Light
Rage-fueled appeals to women’s armed empowerment drive a market in civilian-owned firearms and related commodities while fortifying deregulatory gun policy. Drawing from Achille Mbembe’s (2003) concept of necropolitics, I unpack the intersecting racial and gender logics of women’s armed response to patriarchal violence as a means by which the state “attribute[s] rational objectives to the very act
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The Promise of Repair: Trans Rage and the Limits of Feminist Coalition Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Hil Malatino
This essay theorizes the work of rage at the interface of trans and feminist theories and movements. The juncture of trans and feminist movements is in need of continuing attention given the contemporary resurgence of trans-exclusionary forms of feminist thought and praxis and the ongoing phenomenon of a form of feminist trans tolerance that often falls short of substantive inclusion. I theorize the
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Policing Coraje in the Colony: Toward a Decolonial Feminist Politics of Rage in Puerto Rico Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Marisol LeBrón
This essay traces the ways that activists and ordinary citizens mobilize coraje in order to navigate the constraints of colonial capitalism in contemporary Puerto Rico. In Spanish, coraje has a dual meaning referring to courage as well as anger or rage. Drawing from feminist theories of rage, I argue that coraje is an essential political emotion necessary for structural transformation. In addition
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Ask A Feminist: Patricia Williams Discusses Rage and Humor as an Act of Disobedience with Carla Kaplan and Durba Mitra Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Patricia J. Williams,Carla Kaplan,Durba Mitra
This interview reflects on Patricia Williams’s long history of directing our attention to rage, and especially the rage of women of color. She discusses various grim predictions she has made, which have come to pass in recent years. She also discusses the potential power of humor during these times of outrage and cruel racist and sexist jokes. Black women, Williams notes, have been silenced for decades
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Spitting Back at Law and Order: Donnetta Hill’s Rage in an Era of Vengeance Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 J. T. Roane
In this essay, I analyze the rise of vengeful populism in relation to sex workers in late twentieth-century Philadelphia as part of the popular response to the transformation in the city’s political economy. I juxtapose vengeful populism with the rage of Donnetta Hill, a Black sex worker tried and convicted for the murder of two men the state alleged were her clients. In order to appreciate the contours
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Rage, Indigenous Feminisms, and the Politics of Survival Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Sarah Deer,Jodi A. Byrd,Durba Mitra,Sarah Haley
For the Rage special issue, feminist and legal scholar Sarah Deer (Muscogee [Creek]), University Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, and Jodi A. Byrd (Chickasaw), associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, engage in a powerful roundtable conversation moderated by the Rage special issue editors Harvard feminist professor Durba Mitra and UCLA feminist professor
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Anger, Aggression, Attitude: Intersex Rage as Biopolitical Protest Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 David A. Rubin
This article argues that anger, aggression, and attitude viscerally shape intersex survival and resilience. Far from being toxic, antisocial emotions, these affects manifest rage’s eloquence by critically challenging the sexual and racial logics at the heart of intersex medical pathologization and nonconsensual surgical normalization. Tracing how affective transmission bridges politics across time
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Feminist Digital Counterpublics: Challenging Femicide in Kenya and South Africa Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Awino Okech
What happens when misogyny leads to increasing murders of women, whose lives are considered not worthy because their respectability is under attack? What do feminists do in a global moment when antifeminist backlash emerges with fervor in politics, policy, and social spaces to reverse and challenge feminist progress? Rage happens. This article explores the role of rage in the development of African
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Outraged/Enraged: The Rage Special Issue Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Carla Kaplan,Sarah Haley,Durba Mitra
This introduction demonstrates the critical place of rage in our contemporary moment in the face of the catastrophic COVID-19 pandemic, the surge of protests against police killings and the global Movement for Black Lives, and ongoing dissent against rising authoritarianisms around the world. In her overview of the special issue, Carla Kaplan explores the rich tradition of feminist scholarship on rage
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Ask a Feminist: Deborah Anker Discusses Gender and Asylum Law Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Deborah Anker,Aziza Ahmed
How has feminism shaped US asylum law? Why and how is the Trump administration trying to undo feminist gains? In this episode of Ask a Feminist, asylum- and refugee-law expert Deborah Anker discusses the history and present of gender in the US asylum system. Anker is the founder and director of the Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Law Clinical Program and is one of the most widely known asylum
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The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century. By Kyla Schuller. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Kara W. Swanson
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Race, the Public Sphere, and Sexual Violence in the Mothertongue Project’s Walk: South Africa Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Nicosia Shakes
In 2013, the Mothertongue Project, a women’s theater collective based in Cape Town, South Africa, developed a performance called Walk: South Africa (Walk: SA) as a critique of rape culture. Walk: SA was prompted by the rape and murder of Anene Booysen, a Black South African teenager, in February 2013 and directly inspired by Maya Krishna Rao’s Walk, created in response to the similar rape and murder
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Misrepresenting Reproductive Justice: A Black Feminist Critique of “Protecting Black Life” Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Carolette Norwood
Since August 2014 there have been billboards dotting the Cincinnati urban landscape of ten Black neighborhoods that read “Abortion, the #1 Killer of African Americans,” sponsored by Protecting Black Life, an outreach subsidiary of the Life Issues Institute. Other billboards in the city read “18 Days Real Men Love Babies,” sponsored by ProLife Across America. The stated intent of these advertisements
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Antifeminism, Profeminism, and the Myth of White Men’s Disadvantage Signs (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Tristan Bridges
This article analyzes how members of antifeminist and profeminist men’s groups discursively situate themselves as stigmatized by privilege. While the antifeminist men engage in symbolic disclosures that locate (white) men as the “real victims” of gender inequality, the profeminist men rely on strategies of disidentification to symbolically position themselves as somehow outside of the relations of
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