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
A Note from the Editor10
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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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
:Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction4
About the Contributors4
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
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
A Note from the Editor3
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
A Note from the Editor2
What Do We Learn About Borders If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist?2
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
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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Kawaii Sweets and Boba Liberalism: Desire and Disgust for Asian American Girl Culture0
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:Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China0
Antigenderism and White Feminist Reconstructions in Germany0
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Odd Women, New Women, and the Problem of Erotic Indifference in Late-Victorian Feminism0
Speaking Truth to Power in a Digital Age: #MeToo as Parrhesia0
Exploring Transgender Law and Politics0
“More of Us beyond This Room”: Feminist (Hi)stories and Solidarity in The Future of Another Timeline0
“This Is a Work for the Mothers”: Strategic Maternalism against the Far Right0
“How Not to Get Killed”: Feminist Aftercare in the Dorothy Allison Papers0
“You Are Not Alone”: Feminist Memorialization and the Present Tense of Gender-Based Violence in the Monument Quilt0
What Do We Learn About Protecting Trans/Queer Youth If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist?0
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Backlash at Close Quarters: Rethinking Feminist Politics from South Asia0
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:The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism0
:Shadow of My Shadow0
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Ask a Feminist: Susan Stryker Discusses Trans Studies, Trans Feminism, and a More Trans Future with V Varun Chaudhry0
Black Feminist Self-Help: Or, Notes on the Genres of Contemporary Black Feminist Political Life0
:Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry0
In Defense of Circular Time: Cycles of Feminist Activism in Argentina and Brazil0
“Let Your Ovaries Rest”: Pathologizing Hormones in Japan’s New Economy0
Antifeminism, Anti-Blackness, and Anti-Oldness: The Intersectional Aesthetics of Aging in the Nineteenth-Century United States0
Settler Colonialism in Black and White: Roberta Sykes, Germaine Greer, and the Different Embodied Experiences of Womanhood, Rape, and Sovereignty0
The Body Politic: Representation and Reproductive Feminist Jurisprudence0
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The Delightfully Scatological Humor of Ali Wong: Cringe Comedy and Neoliberal Maternal Discourse0
Marrying to Labor, Laboring to Marry: Gender and the Relational Patterns of Migration from Vietnam0
“Sisters in Asia”: The League of Nations and Feminist Anticolonial Internationalism0
Introduction: Complexities of Care and Caring0
White Women and Antiracism in the (Post)Colony of South Africa0
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Reconceptualizing the Real in the Struggle for Gender: From Gold Standard to Fragile Accomplishment0
Ambivalence as a Feminist Project0
Sexual Governmentality and the Woman at/as Risk in Revolutionary Egypt0
A Note from the Editor0
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Ibn ʿArabī and Mystical Disruptions of Gender: Theoretical Explorations in Islamic Feminism0
Is the Transnational Female? Revisiting the Gender Metaphors of Global Connection0
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“Sisters Together”: Antiracist Activism and the Fight for Trans Inclusion at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival0
A Report on the Academic Job Market in Gender, Women’s, Sexuality, Feminist, and Queer Studies, 2006–20180
:Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans0
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Feminism after the Wrecking Ball: Doubling Down on Intersectional Political Commitment0
:Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology0
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What If? Lesbian Feminism and the Future’s Now0
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“Woman as Wife, Mother, and Home-Maker”: Equal Rights International and Australian Feminists’ Interwar Advocacy for Mothers’ Economic Rights0
Veiling and Unveiling: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Travels in Iran and Afghanistan0
On Intimate Reaches of US Empire: Neoliberal Imperialism and Domestic Abuse in Metro Manila0
“We Cannot Live Without Our Lives”: Art-Activism and the Struggle for Black Women’s Lives in Boston, 19790
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:In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America0
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Gender and Political Economy: Revisiting Distributive Analysis0
:Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table0
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Home Renovation as National Modernization: Colonial Fantasies and Postcolonial Aspirations in South African Township Tourism0
Closets and Mirrors: First-Wave Feminist Translators, Nonauthorship, and the Fascist State0
Subversive Epidemiology in Abortion Care: Reproductive Governance from the Global to the Local in Argentina and Senegal0
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Sex Scenes, Television, and Disavowed Sex Work0
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Women/Lesbian/Prison/Trans? Categories of Mobilization in the Campaign to Change the Definition of AIDS0
Reproductive Subjects and Shifting Global Health Policy Discourses0
:After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It0
:Lethal Intersections: Race, Gender, and Violence0
The 2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship0
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
Collectivity and Feminist History: Situating Luce Irigaray0
Imagining Fetal Citizens in Brazil: On the Transnational Circulation of Reproductive Technologies and the “Statute of the Unborn”0
Big Feminism: The Fiftieth Anniversary Issue of Signs0
:A Short History of Trans Misogyny0
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Defensive Spectatorship, or, Watching as a Butch/Lesbian0
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13 Theses on Feminist Protest: A Manifesto0
:Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism0
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“SUBJECT’s Wife”: The Racialized Gender Logics of Anticommunism and State Surveillance0
“Hang the Rapists Immediately”: Rape Vigilantism, State Violence, and Impunity in Contemporary India0
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
Forged in Fire: Constructing Women’s Studies Knowledge for Social Engagement, 1979–20190
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:Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde0
Ask a Feminist: Reproduction in the Age of Epigenetics; A Conversation with Natali Valdez, Sarah S. Richardson, and Rene Almeling0
Shared Futures or Financialized Futures: Polygenic Screening, Reproductive Justice, and the Radical Charge of Collective Care0
The Inequality of Intersectionalities in Chicago’s First-Wave Women’s Movement0
“The Female Condition”: (Re)thinking Marriage, Prostitution, and Feminist Theories of Abolition0
Rise Up in Mirth: On Angry Feminist Humor and Why Taking It Personally Is Political0
A Long Story About “A Short Story About a Penis”: Lesbian Histories, Queer Methods in Sarah Schulman’s Early Work0
Reclaiming Religious and Legal Authority: An Ethnography of the Women’s Shari’a Courts in India0
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Criminalization, Medicalization, and Stigmatization: Genealogies of Abortion Activism in Poland0
From Cyborg Irony to Oriental Fantasy: The Racial Limits of Cyborg Feminisms in Ex Machina and Ghost in the Shell0
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:Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg0
Confronting Servitude: Asian Immigrant Women Workers in State-Funded Homecare0
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Pregnant Persons as a Gender Category: A Trans Feminist Analysis of Pregnancy Discrimination0
Caring for a Responsible Self: Migrant Motherhood and the Politics of Reproduction0
The Insurgent Agency of Incarcerated Trans Women of Color0
The Labor of the Sabines: Why We Need Art to Theorize Sexual Violence0
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought. By Durba Mitra. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020.0
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Healing as a Feminist Praxis: Combatting Gender Violence through Art and Protest in the Americas0
Rape of the Earth: Ana Mendieta’s Defense of a Metaphor0
“We Stayed Up All Night Rapping”: Toward a History of Feminist Consciousness-Raising, 1964–19860
:Birthing Black Mothers0
Womanly Sounds: Women’s Music and Lesbian Transfeminisms and Transphobias in the 1970s0
The 2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship0
Beyond the State: Abortion Care Activism in Peru0
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Gender Skepticism, Trans Livability, and Feminist Critique0
A Social Reproduction Theory of Gender Violence0
Speaking of Failure: Modern Masculinity and Medieval Confession0
Lesbian Lineages and Lessons0
Birth Rights and Wrongs: Reproductive Outsiders in Azar v. Garza and Madrigal v. Quilligan0
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
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:The Reproduction of Inequality: How Class Shapes the Pregnant Body and Infant Health0
The 2023 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship0
What Do We Learn About AI If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist?0
Femi(ni)cide through a Decolonial Lens: Literary Interventions and the Relational Turn0
Show and Tell: Life History and Hijra Activism in India0
Lesbian Police, Carceral Equality, and the Ambivalence of Confrontation0
Reclaiming Autonomy: The Changing Landscape of Mexican Abortion Activism0
:Fierce, Fabulous, and Fluid: How Trans High School Students Work at Gender Nonconformity0
Toward Aspirational Care Labor: Dementia Care Meets Documentary Filmmaking0
Fantasy States: Nationalism, Intimacy, and Transgression in South African Women’s Political Memoirs0
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The Urgent Need for Radical Feminism Today0
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Performing Work: Maids, Melodrama, and Imitation of Life as Film Noir0
The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism. By Patricia Zavella. New York: New York University Press, 2020.0
:Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898–19410
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Ask a Feminist: Public Feminism, a Conversation with Marcie Bianco and Andi Zeisler0
The Logic of Misogyny in Sport0
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Rethinking “First Wave” Feminisms: An Introduction0
:Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer0
Ethics of Care Born in Intersectional Praxis: A Feminist Abortion Accompaniment Model0
Being Fully Human: Linda Smart Chubb and the Praxis of Black Feminist Internationalism0
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Femi(ni)cide: A Cartography0
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