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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
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Integrating Race, Transforming Feminist Disability Studies47
Building a Feminist Commons in the Time of COVID-1926
From Bloodless Respectability to Radical Menstrual Embodiment: Shifting Menstrual Politics from Private to Public22
Bodies at the Intersections: Refiguring Intersectionality through Queer Women’s Complex Embodiments22
“We Have to Ask for Permission to Become”: Young Women’s Voices, Violence, and Mediated Space in South Africa18
Antifeminism, Profeminism, and the Myth of White Men’s Disadvantage17
Silencing Feminism? Gender and the Rise of the Nationalist Far Right in Spain14
A New Genealogy of “Intelligent Rage,” or Other Ways to Think about White Women in Feminism13
#regrettingmotherhood in Germany: Feminism, Motherhood, and Culture13
Ask a Feminist: Susan Stryker Discusses Trans Studies, Trans Feminism, and a More Trans Future with V Varun Chaudhry12
#MeToo in China: The Dynamic of Digital Activism against Sexual Assault and Harassment in Higher Education12
Sexual Subjectivity in Rape Narratives: Consent, Credibility, and Coercion in Rural Haryana12
A Politics of Snap: Teen Vogue’s Public Feminism11
Feminists Redraw Public and Private Spheres: Abortion, Vulnerability, and the Affective Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment10
Being Fully Human: Linda Smart Chubb and the Praxis of Black Feminist Internationalism10
Innocent White Victims and Fallen Black Girls: Race, Sex Work, and the Limits of Anti–Sex Trafficking Laws10
Feminist Digital Counterpublics: Challenging Femicide in Kenya and South Africa9
Outraged/Enraged: The Rage Special Issue9
Scenes from the Fringe: Gendered Violence and the Geographies of Indigenous Feminism9
Between Same-Sex Marriage,Convivencia, and Polyamory: A New Cartography of Queer Relationships in Mexico City9
The Promise of Repair: Trans Rage and the Limits of Feminist Coalition9
Misrepresenting Reproductive Justice: A Black Feminist Critique of “Protecting Black Life”9
Conceptualizing Gender: Lessons from the Canadian Trans Youth Health Survey7
“They Should Have Never Given Us Uniforms If They Didn’t Want Us to Be an Army”: The Handmaid’s Tale as Transmedia Feminism7
NatSec Feminism: Women Security Experts and the US Counterterror State7
“Give It to Him”: Sexual Violence in the Intimate Relationships of Black Married Women in South Africa7
A Moment or a Movement? The Pandemic, Political Upheaval, and Racial Reckoning7
“It’s Okay, Sister, Your Wolf-Pack Is Here”: Sisterhood as Public Feminism in Spain6
Splitting from Halley: Doing Justice to Race, Unwantedness, and Testimony in Campus Sexual Assault5
Chatbots, Gender, and Race on Web 2.0 Platforms: Tay.AI as Monstrous Femininity and Abject Whiteness5
Semiotic Violence against Women: Theorizing Harms against Female Politicians5
Digital Feminism beyond Nativism and Empire: Affective Territories of Recognition and Competing Claims to Suffering in Iranian Women’s Campaigns5
Neuroqueer Feminism: Turning with Tenderness toward Borderline Personality Disorder5
Colorblind Feminisms: Ansari-Grace and the Limits of #MeToo Counterpublics5
“Tell ’Em Boy Bye”: Zora Neale Hurston and the Importance of Refusal5
Policing Coraje in the Colony: Toward a Decolonial Feminist Politics of Rage in Puerto Rico4
This Is Not Another Girl-Power Story: Reading Emma González as a Public Feminist Intellectual4
Femininity and the Paradox of Trust Building in Patriarchies during COVID-194
Rage, Indigenous Feminisms, and the Politics of Survival4
COVID-19 and the Language of Racism4
Beyond the State: Abortion Care Activism in Peru4
Gender Skepticism, Trans Livability, and Feminist Critique3
Narratives of Harm: Accounts and Displacements of Faculty Sexual Harassment of Students3
Herbivorous Men, Carnivorous Women: Doing Masculinity and Femininity in Japanese “Marriage Hunting”3
Subversive Epidemiology in Abortion Care: Reproductive Governance from the Global to the Local in Argentina and Senegal3
Ask A Feminist: Patricia Williams Discusses Rage and Humor as an Act of Disobedience with Carla Kaplan and Durba Mitra3
Ibn ʿArabī and Mystical Disruptions of Gender: Theoretical Explorations in Islamic Feminism3
Coming of (R)age: A New Genre for Contemporary Narratives about Black Girlhood3
Wikiality within the Manosphere: Namuwiki, Gender Equalism, and Antifeminist Disinformation in the Post-Truth Era3
Expuestas:Laborious Expectations and the Plight of Feminist Art in Contemporary Mexico3
Black Feminist Theories of Motherhood and Generation: Histories of Black Infant and Child Loss in the United States3
The Body Politic: Representation and Reproductive Feminist Jurisprudence2
Reclaiming Religious and Legal Authority: An Ethnography of the Women’s Shari’a Courts in India2
Labors of Love: Sex, Work, and Good Mothering in the Globalizing City2
Multiple Maternities: Performative Motherhood and Support Seeking in South Africa2
The Delightfully Scatological Humor of Ali Wong: Cringe Comedy and Neoliberal Maternal Discourse2
“What Real Empowerment Looks Like”: White Rage and the Necropolitics of Armed Womanhood2
An Unrequited Labor of Love: Child Care and Feminism2
The Report, or, Whatever Happened to Third World Feminist Theory?2
Rape of the Earth: Ana Mendieta’s Defense of a Metaphor2
Feminisms in the Air2
Getting Fracked: Gender Politics in Fracking Discourse2
Toward a Feminist Phenomenology of Temporal Harm2
Criminalization, Medicalization, and Stigmatization: Genealogies of Abortion Activism in Poland2
Double-Edged Care: Toward a Politics of Care Justice1
Is the Transnational Female? Revisiting the Gender Metaphors of Global Connection1
On Making Academic Feminism More Public1
Connective Labor as Emotional Vocabulary: Inequality, Mutuality, and the Politics of Feelings in Care-Work1
“Sisters in Asia”: The League of Nations and Feminist Anticolonial Internationalism1
Ethics of Care Born in Intersectional Praxis: A Feminist Abortion Accompaniment Model1
The Insurgent Agency of Incarcerated Trans Women of Color1
Arson Girls, Match-Strikers, and Firestarters: A Reflection on Rage, Racialization, and the Carcerality of Girlhood1
Anger, Aggression, Attitude: Intersex Rage as Biopolitical Protest1
Race, Gender, and Sanism: Remapping Mad Feminist Genealogies1
New Directions in Feminism and Global Race Studies: A Book Conversation1
The Survivor Imperative: Sexual Violence, Victimhood, and Neoliberalism1
White Men Spitting1
Fantasy States: Nationalism, Intimacy, and Transgression in South African Women’s Political Memoirs1
The Midwife’s Bag, or, the Objects of Black Infant Mortality Prevention1
“Be Soft like Water, Little Woman”: Cultivating Postfeminism in Postsocialist China1
Transforming African Masculinity: A Transnational Approach to Gender Justice in South Africa1
Feminist Rage: Countering Sexual Violence and Sexual Humiliation1
Antifeminism, Anti-Blackness, and Anti-Oldness: The Intersectional Aesthetics of Aging in the Nineteenth-Century United States1
Dereliction, Due Process, and Decorum: The Crises of Title IX1
Spitting Back at Law and Order: Donnetta Hill’s Rage in an Era of Vengeance1
Caring for a Responsible Self: Migrant Motherhood and the Politics of Reproduction1
Rules Matter: How Can Professional Associations Remap Intracommunity Norms around Sexual Violence?1
Affective Dialogue: Building Transnational Feminist Solidarity in Times of War1
On Intimate Reaches of US Empire: Neoliberal Imperialism and Domestic Abuse in Metro Manila1
“Woman as Wife, Mother, and Home-Maker”: Equal Rights International and Australian Feminists’ Interwar Advocacy for Mothers’ Economic Rights1
Espanta Cigüeñas: Race and Abortion in the US-Mexico Borderlands1
Feminist Counterpublics and Public Feminisms: Advancing a Critique of Racialized Sexualization in London’s Public Advertising1
Grossed Out: The Carceral Logics of Disgust and the Demands of #MeToo1
“Let Your Ovaries Rest”: Pathologizing Hormones in Japan’s New Economy1
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality. By Jane Ward. New York: New York University Press, 2020.0
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Ask a Feminist: Deborah Anker Discusses Gender and Asylum Law0
Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood. By Michele Goodwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.0
A Report on the Academic Job Market in Gender, Women’s, Sexuality, Feminist, and Queer Studies, 2006–20180
Rise Up in Mirth: On Angry Feminist Humor and Why Taking It Personally Is Political0
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Show and Tell: Life History and Hijra Activism in India0
Reproductive Subjects and Shifting Global Health Policy Discourses0
Introduction: We Are All (Public) Feminists Now0
The 2023 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship0
:Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 19700
Armed with a Camera: Gender, Human Rights, and Visual Documentation in Israel/Palestine0
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Herlands: Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the US. By Keridwen N. Luis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life. By Dianna Hu0
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¡Sí, Ella Puede! The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers. By Stacey K. Sowards. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019.0
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought. By Durba Mitra. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020.0
Sexual Governmentality and the Woman at/as Risk in Revolutionary Egypt0
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Should Feminists Be Individualists? A Puzzle from Gender and Development Practice0
Kathmandu’s Street Art: Public Representations of Gendered Vulnerability0
Femi(ni)cide: A Cartography0
Rainbows and Mud: Experiments in LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Care0
Confronting Servitude: Asian Immigrant Women Workers in State-Funded Homecare0
Signs Special Issue: Complexities of Care and Caring0
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Pedagogy, Politics, and Betty Dodson’s Liberating Masturbation0
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Ask a Feminist: Eesha Pandit and Paula Moya Discuss Activism and the Academy with Carla Kaplan and Suzanna Walters0
The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism. By Catherine Rottenberg. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny. By Sarah Banet-Weiser. Durham, NC: Du0
:Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry0
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:Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction0
A Prosthetic Popular Feminism in Postfeminist Times: Mrs. America’s Cool Feminism and Antifeminist Celebrity0
The Fabric of Resistance: Care, Domestic Objects, and HIV Self-Narratives in the Work of Kia LaBeija and Jessica Whitbread0
Black Feminist Self-Help: Or, Notes on the Genres of Contemporary Black Feminist Political Life0
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“To Feel Their Warmth, Sisterhood, and Closeness”: Australian Feminist Entanglements with Chinese and Vietnamese Communism, 1969–19790
Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival. By Sophie Richter-Devroe. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018.0
Patriarchal (Dis)orders: Backlash as Crisis Management0
Toward Aspirational Care Labor: Dementia Care Meets Documentary Filmmaking0
Ask a Feminist: Byllye Avery Discusses the Past and Future of Reproductive Justice0
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The Inequality of Intersectionalities in Chicago’s First-Wave Women’s Movement0
Antigenderism and White Feminist Reconstructions in Germany0
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Joy, Rage, and Activism: The Gendered Politics of Affect in the Young Lords Party0
Never Done: A History of Women’s Work in Media Production. By Erin Hill. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016. Nobody’s Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood. By J. E. Sm0
Bathroom Realism and the Women of Cable TV0
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:Birthing Black Mothers0
Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century. By Tey Meadow. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity. By Arlene Ste0
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Visceral Acts: Gestationality as Feminist Figuration0
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Signs Special Issue: Complexities of Care and Caring0
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Closets and Mirrors: First-Wave Feminist Translators, Nonauthorship, and the Fascist State0
Signs Special Issue: Rethinking “First Wave” Feminisms0
The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes. By Jill Richards. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.0
Shared Futures or Financialized Futures: Polygenic Screening, Reproductive Justice, and the Radical Charge of Collective Care0
Big Feminism: The Fiftieth Anniversary Issue of Signs0
:In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America0
Reclaiming Autonomy: The Changing Landscape of Mexican Abortion Activism0
:Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China0
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The 2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship0
:Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table0
Rethinking “First Wave” Feminisms: An Introduction0
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The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism. By Patricia Zavella. New York: New York University Press, 2020.0
Rocking the Revolution: The Chicago Women’s Liberation Rock Band and the Politics of Feminist Rock and Roll0
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Big Feminism: The Fiftieth Anniversary Issue of Signs0
Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema. By Susan Potter. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019.0
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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, 2020.0
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“SUBJECT’s Wife”: The Racialized Gender Logics of Anticommunism and State Surveillance0
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White Women and Antiracism in the (Post)Colony of South Africa0
The New Servant Problem: Paid Domestic Work, Race, and the Gendered Division of Labor0
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Contending with Paradox: Feminist Investments in Gender Training0
Donald Trump, the Resistance, and the Queering of Democracy0
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The 2023 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship0
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
Neither Emancipation nor Exclusion: Rethinking Politics of Piety throughHanımlara Mahsus Gazete0
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Victory or Defeat? The Dilemma of Palliative Schooling in an Era of Racial Equity0
Red Roots of Solidarity: Paula Gunn Allen and the Queer Audiences of Intellectual Sovereignty0
Mountains of Memories: “Visibilizing” Solidarity and Multivocality in Central American Women’sEncuentros0
Forged in Fire: Constructing Women’s Studies Knowledge for Social Engagement, 1979–20190
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The Marriage of Care Labor and Self-Care: Marriage Migration and Neoliberal Refashioning of Care in South Korea0
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Theorizing Feminist Antirape Praxis and the Problem of Resistance0
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“How Not to Get Killed”: Feminist Aftercare in the Dorothy Allison Papers0
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Acuerpar: The Decolonial Feminist Call for Embodied Solidarity0
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The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century. By Kyla Schuller. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018.0
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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, 2020.0
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Beyond the Treatment Room: The Psyche-Body-Society Care Politics of Cairo’s El-Nadeem0
:Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism0
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“I Am Writing You in Reference to Myself”: White Wellness, Black Feminism, and the Politics of Self-Care0
Marrying to Labor, Laboring to Marry: Gender and the Relational Patterns of Migration from Vietnam0
The Urgent Need for Radical Feminism Today0
Race, the Public Sphere, and Sexual Violence in the Mothertongue Project’sWalk: South Africa0
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Butler Traveling East: On Practices of Reading and Translating0
Flânerie as a Mode of Pleasure: Lessons from a Working-Class Flâneuse0
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Signs Special Issue: Complexities of Care and Caring0
Imagining Muslim Women in Secular Humanitarian Time0
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Ask a Feminist: Jennifer Fluri Discusses the Gender Politics of the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan with Sandra McEvoy0
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Reimagining Home: Redemption and Resistance in Hawai‘i Women’s Prison Writing0
Speaking of Failure: Modern Masculinity and Medieval Confession0
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:Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans0
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:Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg0
Imagining Fetal Citizens in Brazil: On the Transnational Circulation of Reproductive Technologies and the “Statute of the Unborn”0
Home Renovation as National Modernization: Colonial Fantasies and Postcolonial Aspirations in South African Township Tourism0
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