Signs

Papers
(The median citation count of Signs is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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The Fabric of Resistance: Care, Domestic Objects, and HIV Self-Narratives in the Work of Kia LaBeija and Jessica Whitbread56
Mountains of Memories: “Visibilizing” Solidarity and Multivocality in Central American Women’sEncuentros35
About the Contributors23
Ask a Feminist: Jennifer Fluri Discusses the Gender Politics of the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan with Sandra McEvoy18
Pedagogy, Politics, and Betty Dodson’sLiberating Masturbation15
Neither Emancipation nor Exclusion: Rethinking Politics of Piety throughHanımlara Mahsus Gazete14
From Roadblocks to TransFeminist Fury: Creating Power, Decolonizing Territories, and Reproducing Life in Argentina11
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A Note from the Editor11
:Archive of Tongues: An Intimate History of Brownness10
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Espanta Cigüeñas: Race and Abortion in the US-Mexico Borderlands10
“Be Soft like Water, Little Woman”: Cultivating Postfeminism in Postsocialist China10
:The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality10
A “Technical Approach”? An Ethnographic Exploration of Menstrual Regulation as Pregnancy Termination in Bangladesh9
“To Feel Their Warmth, Sisterhood, and Closeness”: Australian Feminist Entanglements with Chinese and Vietnamese Communism, 1969–19799
A Prosthetic Popular Feminism in Postfeminist Times:Mrs. America’s Cool Feminism and Antifeminist Celebrity7
A Note from the Editor7
Trans-Exclusionary Reactionary Feminism and the Politics of Ressentiment6
Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement. By Katherine M. Marino. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.6
“Tone Down a Bit”: Multi-Scalar Struggles among Feminist Activists in Post-2010 Kenya6
Flânerie as a Mode of Pleasure: Lessons from a Working-Class Flâneuse6
:Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 19706
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:Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction4
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Semiotic Violence against Women: Theorizing Harms against Female Politicians4
New Directions in Feminism and Global Race Studies: A Book Conversation4
Toward a Feminist Phenomenology of Temporal Harm4
Narratives of Harm: Accounts and Displacements of Faculty Sexual Harassment of Students4
Acuerpar: The Decolonial Feminist Call for Embodied Solidarity4
Should Feminists Be Individualists? A Puzzle from Gender and Development Practice4
Wikiality within the Manosphere: Namuwiki, Gender Equalism, and Antifeminist Disinformation in the Post-Truth Era4
The Marriage of Care Labor and Self-Care: Marriage Migration and Neoliberal Refashioning of Care in South Korea4
Silencing Feminism? Gender and the Rise of the Nationalist Far Right in Spain4
Tactical Everydayness in Taiwanese Queer Discourse: A Personal Turn in Small Talk3
Blackness and Lesbian Studies: A Roundtable Discussion3
Grossed Out: The Carceral Logics of Disgust and the Demands of #MeToo3
:Good Guys, Bad Guys: The Perils of Men’s Gender Activism3
Buying Safety: Neoliberalism, Gendered Violence, and the Everyday State in South Africa3
Labors of Love: Sex, Work, and Good Mothering in the Globalizing City3
Herbivorous Men, Carnivorous Women: Doing Masculinity and Femininity in Japanese “Marriage Hunting”3
: Holy Rebellion: Religious Feminism and the Transformation of Judaism and Women’s Rights in Israel3
Patriarchal (Dis)orders: Backlash as Crisis Management3
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Reductive: Andrea Dworkin’s Style as Thought3
The Report, or, Whatever Happened to Third World Feminist Theory?3
Bathroom Realism and the Women of Cable TV3
About the Contributors3
Malala Yousafzai on the Front Lines: Exploring Contemporary Issues, Rights, and Resilience of Pashtun Women Under Patriarchy and Taliban Influence2
Toward Black Lesbian Study2
:In the Company of Radical Women Writers2
About the Contributors2
:Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam2
Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood. By Michele Goodwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.2
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Challenging the Antipolitics of Regimes of Care: Young African Men in Italy Resist Precarious Futures2
:Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South2
Lubricating Violence with Pleasure in Mexico City2
Visceral Acts: Gestationality as Feminist Figuration2
A Note from the Editor2
What Do We Learn About Borders If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist?2
Rainbows and Mud: Experiments in LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Care1
What Do We Learn About Reproductive Justice If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist?1
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The Lesbian-Identified Lesbian: Lesbian Feminisms for a Post-Binary Future1
“It Was Mythic”: Starflower Natural Foods and Lesbian Collective Space1
“My Body, My Choice, My Country, My Voice”: Kosovar Film, Women’s Rights, and Postwar Trauma1
The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes. By Jill Richards. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.1
“Our Friendship Is Our Politics”: Feminist Intimacies and the Everyday in Southern India1
On Feminicide and Empire: Law and the Killing of Women in British Colonial India1
Red Roots of Solidarity: Paula Gunn Allen and the Queer Audiences of Intellectual Sovereignty1
Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Mobilization of Regret1
Feminist Fertility Awareness? Sexual and Reproductive Knowledge in a Post-Roe World1
:Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China1
Butler Traveling East: On Practices of Reading and Translating1
A Note from the Editor1
: Becoming a Woman: Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Trans Existence1
Mama’s Maybe? Hierarchies of Migrant Kin-Making from Lebanon to Sudan1
Connective Labor as Emotional Vocabulary: Inequality, Mutuality, and the Politics of Feelings in Care-Work1
Double-Edged Care: Toward a Politics of Care Justice1
The 2023 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship1
Book Review1
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13 Theses on Feminist Protest: A Manifesto0
Marrying to Labor, Laboring to Marry: Gender and the Relational Patterns of Migration from Vietnam0
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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, 2019.0
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“Hang the Rapists Immediately”: Rape Vigilantism, State Violence, and Impunity in Contemporary India0
White Women and Antiracism in the (Post)Colony of South Africa0
Shared Futures or Financialized Futures: Polygenic Screening, Reproductive Justice, and the Radical Charge of Collective Care0
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Ask a Feminist: Reproduction in the Age of Epigenetics; A Conversation with Natali Valdez, Sarah S. Richardson, and Rene Almeling0
Sexual Governmentality and the Woman at/as Risk in Revolutionary Egypt0
Reclaiming Religious and Legal Authority: An Ethnography of the Women’s Shari’a Courts in India0
A Report on the Academic Job Market in Gender, Women’s, Sexuality, Feminist, and Queer Studies, 2006–20180
“The Female Condition”: (Re)thinking Marriage, Prostitution, and Feminist Theories of Abolition0
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A Long Story About “A Short Story About a Penis”: Lesbian Histories, Queer Methods in Sarah Schulman’s Early Work0
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From Cyborg Irony to Oriental Fantasy: The Racial Limits of Cyborg Feminisms in Ex Machina and Ghost in the Shell0
:Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology0
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What If? Lesbian Feminism and the Future’s Now0
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Caring for a Responsible Self: Migrant Motherhood and the Politics of Reproduction0
On Intimate Reaches of US Empire: Neoliberal Imperialism and Domestic Abuse in Metro Manila0
Confronting Servitude: Asian Immigrant Women Workers in State-Funded Homecare0
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“Woman as Wife, Mother, and Home-Maker”: Equal Rights International and Australian Feminists’ Interwar Advocacy for Mothers’ Economic Rights0
Rape of the Earth: Ana Mendieta’s Defense of a Metaphor0
:Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table0
The Labor of the Sabines: Why We Need Art to Theorize Sexual Violence0
Home Renovation as National Modernization: Colonial Fantasies and Postcolonial Aspirations in South African Township Tourism0
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Beyond the State: Abortion Care Activism in Peru0
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“We Stayed Up All Night Rapping”: Toward a History of Feminist Consciousness-Raising, 1964–19860
Women/Lesbian/Prison/Trans? Categories of Mobilization in the Campaign to Change the Definition of AIDS0
Womanly Sounds: Women’s Music and Lesbian Transfeminisms and Transphobias in the 1970s0
:After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It0
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The 2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship0
A Social Reproduction Theory of Gender Violence0
Collectivity and Feminist History: Situating Luce Irigaray0
Birth Rights and Wrongs: Reproductive Outsiders in Azar v. Garza and Madrigal v. Quilligan0
Big Feminism: The Fiftieth Anniversary Issue of Signs0
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:A Short History of Trans Misogyny0
A Note from the Editor0
Defensive Spectatorship, or, Watching as a Butch/Lesbian0
:The Reproduction of Inequality: How Class Shapes the Pregnant Body and Infant Health0
Reclaiming Autonomy: The Changing Landscape of Mexican Abortion Activism0
“SUBJECT’s Wife”: The Racialized Gender Logics of Anticommunism and State Surveillance0
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Femi(ni)cide through a Decolonial Lens: Literary Interventions and the Relational Turn0
Lesbian Police, Carceral Equality, and the Ambivalence of Confrontation0
:Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism0
The Urgent Need for Radical Feminism Today0
:Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde0
Toward Aspirational Care Labor: Dementia Care Meets Documentary Filmmaking0
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Forged in Fire: Constructing Women’s Studies Knowledge for Social Engagement, 1979–20190
The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism. By Patricia Zavella. New York: New York University Press, 2020.0
Rise Up in Mirth: On Angry Feminist Humor and Why Taking It Personally Is Political0
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Performing Work: Maids, Melodrama, and Imitation of Life as Film Noir0
The Inequality of Intersectionalities in Chicago’s First-Wave Women’s Movement0
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Criminalization, Medicalization, and Stigmatization: Genealogies of Abortion Activism in Poland0
The Logic of Misogyny in Sport0
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Being Fully Human: Linda Smart Chubb and the Praxis of Black Feminist Internationalism0
:Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg0
Femi(ni)cide: A Cartography0
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:Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer0
Pregnant Persons as a Gender Category: A Trans Feminist Analysis of Pregnancy Discrimination0
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Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought. By Durba Mitra. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020.0
Kawaii Sweets and Boba Liberalism: Desire and Disgust for Asian American Girl Culture0
Healing as a Feminist Praxis: Combatting Gender Violence through Art and Protest in the Americas0
:Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China0
The Insurgent Agency of Incarcerated Trans Women of Color0
“How Not to Get Killed”: Feminist Aftercare in the Dorothy Allison Papers0
:Birthing Black Mothers0
Speaking Truth to Power in a Digital Age: #MeToo as Parrhesia0
The 2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship0
“More of Us beyond This Room”: Feminist (Hi)stories and Solidarity in The Future of Another Timeline0
Backlash at Close Quarters: Rethinking Feminist Politics from South Asia0
Gender Skepticism, Trans Livability, and Feminist Critique0
“You Are Not Alone”: Feminist Memorialization and the Present Tense of Gender-Based Violence in the Monument Quilt0
Lesbian Lineages and Lessons0
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Repression Present at All Times: Lesbians, the Alternative Press, and Political Activism During the Brazilian Military Dictatorship0
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The Tragedy of Heterosexuality. By Jane Ward. New York: New York University Press, 2020.0
:The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism0
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The 2023 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship0
Black Feminist Self-Help: Or, Notes on the Genres of Contemporary Black Feminist Political Life0
The Body Politic: Representation and Reproductive Feminist Jurisprudence0
What Do We Learn About AI If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist?0
In Defense of Circular Time: Cycles of Feminist Activism in Argentina and Brazil0
Show and Tell: Life History and Hijra Activism in India0
Antifeminism, Anti-Blackness, and Anti-Oldness: The Intersectional Aesthetics of Aging in the Nineteenth-Century United States0
Introduction: Complexities of Care and Caring0
Fantasy States: Nationalism, Intimacy, and Transgression in South African Women’s Political Memoirs0
Speaking of Failure: Modern Masculinity and Medieval Confession0
The Delightfully Scatological Humor of Ali Wong: Cringe Comedy and Neoliberal Maternal Discourse0
“Sisters in Asia”: The League of Nations and Feminist Anticolonial Internationalism0
:Fierce, Fabulous, and Fluid: How Trans High School Students Work at Gender Nonconformity0
Ambivalence as a Feminist Project0
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Reconceptualizing the Real in the Struggle for Gender: From Gold Standard to Fragile Accomplishment0
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Is the Transnational Female? Revisiting the Gender Metaphors of Global Connection0
Ask a Feminist: Public Feminism, a Conversation with Marcie Bianco and Andi Zeisler0
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Ibn ʿArabī and Mystical Disruptions of Gender: Theoretical Explorations in Islamic Feminism0
:Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898–19410
Feminism after the Wrecking Ball: Doubling Down on Intersectional Political Commitment0
Rethinking “First Wave” Feminisms: An Introduction0
“Sisters Together”: Antiracist Activism and the Fight for Trans Inclusion at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival0
Ethics of Care Born in Intersectional Praxis: A Feminist Abortion Accompaniment Model0
:Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans0
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Antigenderism and White Feminist Reconstructions in Germany0
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:In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America0
Exploring Transgender Law and Politics0
Veiling and Unveiling: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Travels in Iran and Afghanistan0
“This Is a Work for the Mothers”: Strategic Maternalism against the Far Right0
“We Cannot Live Without Our Lives”: Art-Activism and the Struggle for Black Women’s Lives in Boston, 19790
Odd Women, New Women, and the Problem of Erotic Indifference in Late-Victorian Feminism0
Closets and Mirrors: First-Wave Feminist Translators, Nonauthorship, and the Fascist State0
What Do We Learn About Protecting Trans/Queer Youth If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist?0
Gender and Political Economy: Revisiting Distributive Analysis0
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A Note from the Editor0
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Subversive Epidemiology in Abortion Care: Reproductive Governance from the Global to the Local in Argentina and Senegal0
:Shadow of My Shadow0
Sex Scenes, Television, and Disavowed Sex Work0
Ask a Feminist: Susan Stryker Discusses Trans Studies, Trans Feminism, and a More Trans Future with V Varun Chaudhry0
Reproductive Subjects and Shifting Global Health Policy Discourses0
:Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry0
:Lethal Intersections: Race, Gender, and Violence0
“Let Your Ovaries Rest”: Pathologizing Hormones in Japan’s New Economy0
Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America. By David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020.0
Settler Colonialism in Black and White: Roberta Sykes, Germaine Greer, and the Different Embodied Experiences of Womanhood, Rape, and Sovereignty0
Imagining Fetal Citizens in Brazil: On the Transnational Circulation of Reproductive Technologies and the “Statute of the Unborn”0
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