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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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The Fabric of Resistance: Care, Domestic Objects, and HIV Self-Narratives in the Work of Kia LaBeija and Jessica Whitbread22
Mountains of Memories: “Visibilizing” Solidarity and Multivocality in Central American Women’sEncuentros21
About the Contributors16
Ask a Feminist: Jennifer Fluri Discusses the Gender Politics of the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan with Sandra McEvoy13
From Roadblocks to TransFeminist Fury: Creating Power, Decolonizing Territories, and Reproducing Life in Argentina12
A Note from the Editor12
Front Matter11
Pedagogy, Politics, and Betty Dodson’sLiberating Masturbation11
Espanta Cigüeñas: Race and Abortion in the US-Mexico Borderlands11
:Archive of Tongues: An Intimate History of Brownness11
“Be Soft like Water, Little Woman”: Cultivating Postfeminism in Postsocialist China10
A Note from the Editor9
:The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality8
“To Feel Their Warmth, Sisterhood, and Closeness”: Australian Feminist Entanglements with Chinese and Vietnamese Communism, 1969–19797
A Prosthetic Popular Feminism in Postfeminist Times:Mrs. America’s Cool Feminism and Antifeminist Celebrity6
A “Technical Approach”? An Ethnographic Exploration of Menstrual Regulation as Pregnancy Termination in Bangladesh6
A Note from the Editor6
Flânerie as a Mode of Pleasure: Lessons from a Working-Class Flâneuse6
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Trans-Exclusionary Reactionary Feminism and the Politics of Ressentiment5
:Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 19705
Popular Financial Feminisms: Mapping New Mergers of Feminism and Capitalism5
“Tone Down a Bit”: Multi-Scalar Struggles among Feminist Activists in Post-2010 Kenya5
About the Contributors4
Should Feminists Be Individualists? A Puzzle from Gender and Development Practice4
Tactical Everydayness in Taiwanese Queer Discourse: A Personal Turn in Small Talk4
Reductive: Andrea Dworkin’s Style as Thought4
The Marriage of Care Labor and Self-Care: Marriage Migration and Neoliberal Refashioning of Care in South Korea4
Theorizing Contemporary Anti-Gender Politics: Transnational Resistance, Solidarities, and Futures; An Introduction4
New Directions in Feminism and Global Race Studies: A Book Conversation4
Blackness and Lesbian Studies: A Roundtable Discussion4
Toward a Feminist Phenomenology of Temporal Harm4
:Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction4
Wikiality within the Manosphere: Namuwiki, Gender Equalism, and Antifeminist Disinformation in the Post-Truth Era4
A Note from the Editor4
Acuerpar: The Decolonial Feminist Call for Embodied Solidarity4
Buying Safety: Neoliberalism, Gendered Violence, and the Everyday State in South Africa3
About the Contributors3
: Holy Rebellion: Religious Feminism and the Transformation of Judaism and Women’s Rights in Israel3
Seeing the Body-Territory: Nature, Technology, and Accumulation in Latin American Feminisms3
:Good Guys, Bad Guys: The Perils of Men’s Gender Activism3
The Report, or, Whatever Happened to Third World Feminist Theory?3
Grossed Out: The Carceral Logics of Disgust and the Demands of #MeToo3
Reflections on Anti-Gender Politics and Resistance in the Gulf3
:Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam2
About the Contributors2
Toward Black Lesbian Study2
Malala Yousafzai on the Front Lines: Exploring Contemporary Issues, Rights, and Resilience of Pashtun Women Under Patriarchy and Taliban Influence2
Patriarchal (Dis)orders: Backlash as Crisis Management2
What Do We Learn About Borders If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist?2
Challenging the Antipolitics of Regimes of Care: Young African Men in Italy Resist Precarious Futures2
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:Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South2
A Note from the Editor2
The Escalation of Essentialist Feminism in Times of the Ultra-Right in Brazil2
:In the Company of Radical Women Writers2
Lubricating Violence with Pleasure in Mexico City2
: Becoming a Woman: Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Trans Existence1
“It Was Mythic”: Starflower Natural Foods and Lesbian Collective Space1
Book Review1
Connective Labor as Emotional Vocabulary: Inequality, Mutuality, and the Politics of Feelings in Care-Work1
What Do We Learn About Reproductive Justice If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist?1
On Feminicide and Empire: Law and the Killing of Women in British Colonial India1
Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Mobilization of Regret1
The Lesbian-Identified Lesbian: Lesbian Feminisms for a Post-Binary Future1
Rainbows and Mud: Experiments in LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Care1
“My Body, My Choice, My Country, My Voice”: Kosovar Film, Women’s Rights, and Postwar Trauma1
Mama’s Maybe? Hierarchies of Migrant Kin-Making from Lebanon to Sudan1
Red Roots of Solidarity: Paula Gunn Allen and the Queer Audiences of Intellectual Sovereignty1
“Our Friendship Is Our Politics”: Feminist Intimacies and the Everyday in Southern India1
Butler Traveling East: On Practices of Reading and Translating1
The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes. By Jill Richards. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.1
Double-Edged Care: Toward a Politics of Care Justice1
Trump’s Anti-Trans, Anti-Gender Executive Orders: A Conversation with Libby Adler and K.J. Rawson1
A Note from the Editor1
Visceral Acts: Gestationality as Feminist Figuration1
Lesbian Police, Carceral Equality, and the Ambivalence of Confrontation0
Antigenderism and White Feminist Reconstructions in Germany0
:Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer0
:Shadow of My Shadow0
A Note from the Editor0
Ask a Feminist: Reproduction in the Age of Epigenetics; A Conversation with Natali Valdez, Sarah S. Richardson, and Rene Almeling0
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A Note from the Editor0
:Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry0
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“Woman as Wife, Mother, and Home-Maker”: Equal Rights International and Australian Feminists’ Interwar Advocacy for Mothers’ Economic Rights0
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Settler Colonialism in Black and White: Roberta Sykes, Germaine Greer, and the Different Embodied Experiences of Womanhood, Rape, and Sovereignty0
White Women and Antiracism in the (Post)Colony of South Africa0
A Social Reproduction Theory of Gender Violence0
“SUBJECT’s Wife”: The Racialized Gender Logics of Anticommunism and State Surveillance0
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Introduction: Complexities of Care and Caring0
:After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It0
“More of Us beyond This Room”: Feminist (Hi)stories and Solidarity in The Future of Another Timeline0
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Caring for a Responsible Self: Migrant Motherhood and the Politics of Reproduction0
:Lesbian Porn Magazines and the Sex Wars: Reimagining Sex, Power, and Identity0
Veiling and Unveiling: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Travels in Iran and Afghanistan0
The Devil’s in Decline: Western Anti-Gender Politics and the Evolution of Queerphobia in Lebanon0
:The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism0
Thanks to Reviewers0
Front Matter0
:The Reproduction of Inequality: How Class Shapes the Pregnant Body and Infant Health0
The Survivor Imperative: Sexual Violence, Victimhood, and Neoliberalism0
Gender and Political Economy: Revisiting Distributive Analysis0
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Rape of the Earth: Ana Mendieta’s Defense of a Metaphor0
Whithering0
The Maternal Guardians of the Nation: Motherhood as a Site for “Anti-Gender” Organizing in Sri Lanka0
Is the Transnational Female? Revisiting the Gender Metaphors of Global Connection0
Backlash at Close Quarters: Rethinking Feminist Politics from South Asia0
:Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology0
:Birthing Black Mothers0
About the Contributors0
:Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China0
Imagining Fetal Citizens in Brazil: On the Transnational Circulation of Reproductive Technologies and the “Statute of the Unborn”0
“Hang the Rapists Immediately”: Rape Vigilantism, State Violence, and Impunity in Contemporary India0
Crisis0
About the Contributors0
“This Is a Work for the Mothers”: Strategic Maternalism against the Far Right0
A Note from the Editor0
Odd Women, New Women, and the Problem of Erotic Indifference in Late-Victorian Feminism0
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Reclaiming Autonomy: The Changing Landscape of Mexican Abortion Activism0
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Speaking of Failure: Modern Masculinity and Medieval Confession0
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Beyond the Treatment Room: The Psyche-Body-Society Care Politics of Cairo’s El-Nadeem0
In Defense of Circular Time: Cycles of Feminist Activism in Argentina and Brazil0
Women/Lesbian/Prison/Trans? Categories of Mobilization in the Campaign to Change the Definition of AIDS0
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“Sisters in Asia”: The League of Nations and Feminist Anticolonial Internationalism0
Black Feminist Aesthetics of Injection: Reframing Transition in Clarissa Sligh’s Wrongly Bodied0
Shared Futures or Financialized Futures: Polygenic Screening, Reproductive Justice, and the Radical Charge of Collective Care0
The 2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship0
“The Female Condition”: (Re)thinking Marriage, Prostitution, and Feminist Theories of Abolition0
A Long Story About “A Short Story About a Penis”: Lesbian Histories, Queer Methods in Sarah Schulman’s Early Work0
:A Short History of Trans Misogyny0
From Cyborg Irony to Oriental Fantasy: The Racial Limits of Cyborg Feminisms in Ex Machina and Ghost in the Shell0
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:Fierce, Fabulous, and Fluid: How Trans High School Students Work at Gender Nonconformity0
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Defensive Spectatorship, or, Watching as a Butch/Lesbian0
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Consent? Four Conceptual Approaches0
:Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans0
Forged in Fire: Constructing Women’s Studies Knowledge for Social Engagement, 1979–20190
Carceral Diagonalism: The Punitive Safety Politics Linking Left and Right Transnational Anti-Gender Mobilizations0
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Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Mobilization of Regret0
Kawaii Sweets and Boba Liberalism: Desire and Disgust for Asian American Girl Culture0
Sexual Governmentality and the Woman at/as Risk in Revolutionary Egypt0
Femi(ni)cide through a Decolonial Lens: Literary Interventions and the Relational Turn0
Healing as a Feminist Praxis: Combatting Gender Violence through Art and Protest in the Americas0
: Queering Families: Reproductive Justice in Precarious Times0
Subversive Epidemiology in Abortion Care: Reproductive Governance from the Global to the Local in Argentina and Senegal0
Victory or Defeat? The Dilemma of Palliative Schooling in an Era of Racial Equity0
The Labor of the Sabines: Why We Need Art to Theorize Sexual Violence0
Right-Wing Times: Fascism, Left/Right Convergences, and the Relationship of “Gender-Critical” to Anti-Gender0
Womanly Sounds: Women’s Music and Lesbian Transfeminisms and Transphobias in the 1970s0
: Caught in the Crosshairs: Feminist Comedians and the Culture Wars0
About the Contributors0
Confronting Servitude: Asian Immigrant Women Workers in State-Funded Homecare0
Naked Protests: The Language of Women’s Bodies at the End of Their Tether0
“We Stayed Up All Night Rapping”: Toward a History of Feminist Consciousness-Raising, 1964–19860
:Lethal Intersections: Race, Gender, and Violence0
“How Not to Get Killed”: Feminist Aftercare in the Dorothy Allison Papers0
Reproductive Subjects and Shifting Global Health Policy Discourses0
Rethinking the Stalled Revolution: Toward New Metaphors for Feminist Struggle0
About the Contributors0
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Closets and Mirrors: First-Wave Feminist Translators, Nonauthorship, and the Fascist State0
:Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg0
About the Contributors0
Birth Rights and Wrongs: Reproductive Outsiders in Azar v. Garza and Madrigal v. Quilligan0
Feminist Fertility Awareness? Sexual and Reproductive Knowledge in a Post-Roe World0
Black Feminist Self-Help: Or, Notes on the Genres of Contemporary Black Feminist Political Life0
Reconceptualizing the Real in the Struggle for Gender: From Gold Standard to Fragile Accomplishment0
What If? Lesbian Feminism and the Future’s Now0
A Note from the Editor0
Repression Present at All Times: Lesbians, the Alternative Press, and Political Activism During the Brazilian Military Dictatorship0
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The Insurgent Agency of Incarcerated Trans Women of Color0
Thanks to Reviewers0
Investment Feminism and Women’s Health0
Home Renovation as National Modernization: Colonial Fantasies and Postcolonial Aspirations in South African Township Tourism0
Toward Aspirational Care Labor: Dementia Care Meets Documentary Filmmaking0
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What Do We Learn About Protecting Trans/Queer Youth If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist?0
A Report on the Academic Job Market in Gender, Women’s, Sexuality, Feminist, and Queer Studies, 2006–20180
Lesbian Lineages and Lessons0
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A Note from the Editor0
Collectivity and Feminist History: Situating Luce Irigaray0
Antifeminism, Anti-Blackness, and Anti-Oldness: The Intersectional Aesthetics of Aging in the Nineteenth-Century United States0
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality. By Jane Ward. New York: New York University Press, 2020.0
Femi(ni)cide: A Cartography0
The Logic of Misogyny in Sport0
What Do We Learn About AI If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist?0
Being Fully Human: Linda Smart Chubb and the Praxis of Black Feminist Internationalism0
About the Contributors0
Pregnant Persons as a Gender Category: A Trans Feminist Analysis of Pregnancy Discrimination0
:Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China0
Marrying to Labor, Laboring to Marry: Gender and the Relational Patterns of Migration from Vietnam0
:Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table0
Rethinking “First Wave” Feminisms: An Introduction0
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Sex Scenes, Television, and Disavowed Sex Work0
:Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde0
“Sisters Together”: Antiracist Activism and the Fight for Trans Inclusion at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival0
Generating Intimacy: Rage, Female Friendship, and the Heteropatriarchal Household on TV after #MeToo0
Loving the Self, Imagining Otherwise: A Case for Self-Love and Its Speculative Possibilities0
:Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898–19410
“We Cannot Live Without Our Lives”: Art-Activism and the Struggle for Black Women’s Lives in Boston, 19790
Big Feminism: The Fiftieth Anniversary Issue of Signs0
About the Contributors0
Race, Gender, and Sanism: Remapping Mad Feminist Genealogies0
The New Servant Problem: Paid Domestic Work, Race, and the Gendered Division of Labor0
Speaking Truth to Power in a Digital Age: #MeToo as Parrhesia0
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:In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America0
Thanks to Reviewers0
“I Am Writing You in Reference to Myself”: White Wellness, Black Feminism, and the Politics of Self-Care0
“You Are Not Alone”: Feminist Memorialization and the Present Tense of Gender-Based Violence in the Monument Quilt0
Beyond the State: Abortion Care Activism in Peru0
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The Urgent Need for Radical Feminism Today0
About the Contributors0
About the Contributors0
Thanks to Reviewers0
Ethics of Care Born in Intersectional Praxis: A Feminist Abortion Accompaniment Model0
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The Inequality of Intersectionalities in Chicago’s First-Wave Women’s Movement0
The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism. By Patricia Zavella. New York: New York University Press, 2020.0
Ambivalence as a Feminist Project0
Criminalization, Medicalization, and Stigmatization: Genealogies of Abortion Activism in Poland0
13 Theses on Feminist Protest: A Manifesto0
:Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism0
Feminism after the Wrecking Ball: Doubling Down on Intersectional Political Commitment0
The Body Politic: Representation and Reproductive Feminist Jurisprudence0
Exploring Transgender Law and Politics0
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The 2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship0
About the Contributors0
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