Signs

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The Fabric of Resistance: Care, Domestic Objects, and HIV Self-Narratives in the Work of Kia LaBeija and Jessica Whitbread	55
Mountains of Memories: “Visibilizing” Solidarity and Multivocality in Central American Women’sEncuentros	34
About the Contributors	22
Ask a Feminist: Jennifer Fluri Discusses the Gender Politics of the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan with Sandra McEvoy	17
Pedagogy, Politics, and Betty Dodson’sLiberating Masturbation	12
Neither Emancipation nor Exclusion: Rethinking Politics of Piety throughHanımlara Mahsus Gazete	11
From Roadblocks to TransFeminist Fury: Creating Power, Decolonizing Territories, and Reproducing Life in Argentina	11
“Be Soft like Water, Little Woman”: Cultivating Postfeminism in Postsocialist China	11
Front Matter	10
A Note from the Editor	10
Espanta Cigüeñas: Race and Abortion in the US-Mexico Borderlands	10
:Archive of Tongues: An Intimate History of Brownness	10
“To Feel Their Warmth, Sisterhood, and Closeness”: Australian Feminist Entanglements with Chinese and Vietnamese Communism, 1969–1979	8
:The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality	8
A Note from the Editor	8
A Note from the Editor	7
A “Technical Approach”? An Ethnographic Exploration of Menstrual Regulation as Pregnancy Termination in Bangladesh	7
Flânerie as a Mode of Pleasure: Lessons from a Working-Class Flâneuse	6
“Tone Down a Bit”: Multi-Scalar Struggles among Feminist Activists in Post-2010 Kenya	6
A Prosthetic Popular Feminism in Postfeminist Times:Mrs. America’s Cool Feminism and Antifeminist Celebrity	6
Trans-Exclusionary Reactionary Feminism and the Politics of Ressentiment	6
:Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction	4
Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement. By Katherine M. Marino. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.	4
About the Contributors	4
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:Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970	4
Toward a Feminist Phenomenology of Temporal Harm	4
A Note from the Editor	4
Should Feminists Be Individualists? A Puzzle from Gender and Development Practice	4
Narratives of Harm: Accounts and Displacements of Faculty Sexual Harassment of Students	4
Semiotic Violence against Women: Theorizing Harms against Female Politicians	3
Buying Safety: Neoliberalism, Gendered Violence, and the Everyday State in South Africa	3
The Report, or, Whatever Happened to Third World Feminist Theory?	3
Herbivorous Men, Carnivorous Women: Doing Masculinity and Femininity in Japanese “Marriage Hunting”	3
Grossed Out: The Carceral Logics of Disgust and the Demands of #MeToo	3
Blackness and Lesbian Studies: A Roundtable Discussion	3
Wikiality within the Manosphere: Namuwiki, Gender Equalism, and Antifeminist Disinformation in the Post-Truth Era	3
New Directions in Feminism and Global Race Studies: A Book Conversation	3
Tactical Everydayness in Taiwanese Queer Discourse: A Personal Turn in Small Talk	3
:Good Guys, Bad Guys: The Perils of Men’s Gender Activism	3
Reductive: Andrea Dworkin’s Style as Thought	3
About the Contributors	3
Acuerpar: The Decolonial Feminist Call for Embodied Solidarity	3
Silencing Feminism? Gender and the Rise of the Nationalist Far Right in Spain	3
A Note from the Editor	3
The Marriage of Care Labor and Self-Care: Marriage Migration and Neoliberal Refashioning of Care in South Korea	3
Bathroom Realism and the Women of Cable TV	3
Labors of Love: Sex, Work, and Good Mothering in the Globalizing City	3
Front Matter	2
Challenging the Antipolitics of Regimes of Care: Young African Men in Italy Resist Precarious Futures	2
About the Contributors	2
:In the Company of Radical Women Writers	2
A Note from the Editor	2
Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood. By Michele Goodwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.	2
Visceral Acts: Gestationality as Feminist Figuration	2
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Patriarchal (Dis)orders: Backlash as Crisis Management	2
:Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam	2
What Do We Learn About Borders If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist?	2
:Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South	2
Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Mobilization of Regret	1
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A Note from the Editor	1
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The 2023 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship	1
“Our Friendship Is Our Politics”: Feminist Intimacies and the Everyday in Southern India	1
On Feminicide and Empire: Law and the Killing of Women in British Colonial India	1
Toward Black Lesbian Study	1
Lubricating Violence with Pleasure in Mexico City	1
Rainbows and Mud: Experiments in LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Care	1
Book Review	1
What Do We Learn About Reproductive Justice If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist?	1
Butler Traveling East: On Practices of Reading and Translating	1
Red Roots of Solidarity: Paula Gunn Allen and the Queer Audiences of Intellectual Sovereignty	1
Connective Labor as Emotional Vocabulary: Inequality, Mutuality, and the Politics of Feelings in Care-Work	1

The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes. By Jill Richards. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.	1
“My Body, My Choice, My Country, My Voice”: Kosovar Film, Women’s Rights, and Postwar Trauma	1
“Hang the Rapists Immediately”: Rape Vigilantism, State Violence, and Impunity in Contemporary India	0
“I Am Writing You in Reference to Myself”: White Wellness, Black Feminism, and the Politics of Self-Care	0
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
The Inequality of Intersectionalities in Chicago’s First-Wave Women’s Movement	0
Toward Aspirational Care Labor: Dementia Care Meets Documentary Filmmaking	0
Healing as a Feminist Praxis: Combatting Gender Violence through Art and Protest in the Americas	0
Ask a Feminist: Reproduction in the Age of Epigenetics; A Conversation with Natali Valdez, Sarah S. Richardson, and Rene Almeling	0
Beyond the Treatment Room: The Psyche-Body-Society Care Politics of Cairo’s El-Nadeem	0
Caring for a Responsible Self: Migrant Motherhood and the Politics of Reproduction	0
:Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer	0
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A Long Story About “A Short Story About a Penis”: Lesbian Histories, Queer Methods in Sarah Schulman’s Early Work	0
About the Contributors	0
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A Note from the Editor	0
:Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China	0
“Sisters Together”: Antiracist Activism and the Fight for Trans Inclusion at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival	0
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Rape of the Earth: Ana Mendieta’s Defense of a Metaphor	0
Being Fully Human: Linda Smart Chubb and the Praxis of Black Feminist Internationalism	0
Sexual Governmentality and the Woman at/as Risk in Revolutionary Egypt	0
“Sisters in Asia”: The League of Nations and Feminist Anticolonial Internationalism	0
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought. By Durba Mitra. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020.	0
Closets and Mirrors: First-Wave Feminist Translators, Nonauthorship, and the Fascist State	0
:Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China	0
Thanks to Reviewers	0
Whithering	0
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The 2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship	0
The Labor of the Sabines: Why We Need Art to Theorize Sexual Violence	0
Rethinking the Stalled Revolution: Toward New Metaphors for Feminist Struggle	0
A Social Reproduction Theory of Gender Violence	0
:Shadow of My Shadow	0
Plant Sex: A Cultural Analysis of the Gendering of Plant Reproduction Processes	0
“We Stayed Up All Night Rapping”: Toward a History of Feminist Consciousness-Raising, 1964–1986	0
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:Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry	0
Rethinking “First Wave” Feminisms: An Introduction	0
About the Contributors	0
Collectivity and Feminist History: Situating Luce Irigaray	0
About the Contributors	0
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Thanks to Reviewers	0
Subversive Epidemiology in Abortion Care: Reproductive Governance from the Global to the Local in Argentina and Senegal	0
What Do We Learn About AI If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist?	0
:The Reproduction of Inequality: How Class Shapes the Pregnant Body and Infant Health	0
Odd Women, New Women, and the Problem of Erotic Indifference in Late-Victorian Feminism	0
Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Mobilization of Regret	0
A Note from the Editor	0
Pregnant Persons as a Gender Category: A Trans Feminist Analysis of Pregnancy Discrimination	0
:The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism	0
Marrying to Labor, Laboring to Marry: Gender and the Relational Patterns of Migration from Vietnam	0
The Urgent Need for Radical Feminism Today	0
Victory or Defeat? The Dilemma of Palliative Schooling in an Era of Racial Equity	0
Reclaiming Autonomy: The Changing Landscape of Mexican Abortion Activism	0
:After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It	0
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:Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde	0
A Note from the Editor	0
Front Matter	0
Thanks to Reviewers	0
:Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898–1941	0
About the Contributors	0
Big Feminism: The Fiftieth Anniversary Issue of Signs	0
“Woman as Wife, Mother, and Home-Maker”: Equal Rights International and Australian Feminists’ Interwar Advocacy for Mothers’ Economic Rights	0
:Birthing Black Mothers	0
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Birth Rights and Wrongs: Reproductive Outsiders in Azar v. Garza and Madrigal v. Quilligan	0
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A Note from the Editor	0
The Logic of Misogyny in Sport	0
What If? Lesbian Feminism and the Future’s Now	0
About the Contributors	0
From Cyborg Irony to Oriental Fantasy: The Racial Limits of Cyborg Feminisms in Ex Machina and Ghost in the Shell	0
Feminist Fertility Awareness? Sexual and Reproductive Knowledge in a Post-Roe World	0
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Thanks to Reviewers	0

“How Not to Get Killed”: Feminist Aftercare in the Dorothy Allison Papers	0
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Gender Skepticism, Trans Livability, and Feminist Critique	0
:Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans	0
Exploring Transgender Law and Politics	0
Beyond the State: Abortion Care Activism in Peru	0
“More of Us beyond This Room”: Feminist (Hi)stories and Solidarity in The Future of Another Timeline	0
Antigenderism and White Feminist Reconstructions in Germany	0
Kawaii Sweets and Boba Liberalism: Desire and Disgust for Asian American Girl Culture	0
A Note from the Editor	0
Front Matter	0
Speaking Truth to Power in a Digital Age: #MeToo as Parrhesia	0
Criminalization, Medicalization, and Stigmatization: Genealogies of Abortion Activism in Poland	0
Sex Scenes, Television, and Disavowed Sex Work	0
The 2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship	0
Rise Up in Mirth: On Angry Feminist Humor and Why Taking It Personally Is Political	0
“You Are Not Alone”: Feminist Memorialization and the Present Tense of Gender-Based Violence in the Monument Quilt	0
“This Is a Work for the Mothers”: Strategic Maternalism against the Far Right	0
The 2023 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship	0
:Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology	0
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“Let Your Ovaries Rest”: Pathologizing Hormones in Japan’s New Economy	0
Imagining Fetal Citizens in Brazil: On the Transnational Circulation of Reproductive Technologies and the “Statute of the Unborn”	0
Show and Tell: Life History and Hijra Activism in India	0
Confronting Servitude: Asian Immigrant Women Workers in State-Funded Homecare	0
Contending with Paradox: Feminist Investments in Gender Training	0
About the Contributors	0
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A Report on the Academic Job Market in Gender, Women’s, Sexuality, Feminist, and Queer Studies, 2006–2018	0
The Body Politic: Representation and Reproductive Feminist Jurisprudence	0
Generating Intimacy: Rage, Female Friendship, and the Heteropatriarchal Household on TV after #MeToo	0
In Defense of Circular Time: Cycles of Feminist Activism in Argentina and Brazil	0
White Women and Antiracism in the (Post)Colony of South Africa	0
Femi(ni)cide through a Decolonial Lens: Literary Interventions and the Relational Turn	0
“SUBJECT’s Wife”: The Racialized Gender Logics of Anticommunism and State Surveillance	0
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The New Servant Problem: Paid Domestic Work, Race, and the Gendered Division of Labor	0
Introduction: Complexities of Care and Caring	0
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Reclaiming Religious and Legal Authority: An Ethnography of the Women’s Shari’a Courts in India	0
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Reconceptualizing the Real in the Struggle for Gender: From Gold Standard to Fragile Accomplishment	0
The Survivor Imperative: Sexual Violence, Victimhood, and Neoliberalism	0
Shared Futures or Financialized Futures: Polygenic Screening, Reproductive Justice, and the Radical Charge of Collective Care	0
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Settler Colonialism in Black and White: Roberta Sykes, Germaine Greer, and the Different Embodied Experiences of Womanhood, Rape, and Sovereignty	0
Performing Work: Maids, Melodrama, and Imitation of Life as Film Noir	0
On Loving Feminism: An Introduction	0
About the Contributors	0
Antifeminism, Anti-Blackness, and Anti-Oldness: The Intersectional Aesthetics of Aging in the Nineteenth-Century United States	0
About the Contributors	0
“The Female Condition”: (Re)thinking Marriage, Prostitution, and Feminist Theories of Abolition	0
Ethics of Care Born in Intersectional Praxis: A Feminist Abortion Accompaniment Model	0
:In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America	0
The Delightfully Scatological Humor of Ali Wong: Cringe Comedy and Neoliberal Maternal Discourse	0
Double-Edged Care: Toward a Politics of Care Justice	0
Femi(ni)cide: A Cartography	0
Ibn ʿArabī and Mystical Disruptions of Gender: Theoretical Explorations in Islamic Feminism	0
On Intimate Reaches of US Empire: Neoliberal Imperialism and Domestic Abuse in Metro Manila	0
Speaking of Failure: Modern Masculinity and Medieval Confession	0
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Repression Present at All Times: Lesbians, the Alternative Press, and Political Activism During the Brazilian Military Dictatorship	0
Reproductive Subjects and Shifting Global Health Policy Discourses	0
Womanly Sounds: Women’s Music and Lesbian Transfeminisms and Transphobias in the 1970s	0
Home Renovation as National Modernization: Colonial Fantasies and Postcolonial Aspirations in South African Township Tourism	0
Veiling and Unveiling: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Travels in Iran and Afghanistan	0
:Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table	0
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Lesbian Lineages and Lessons	0
What Do We Learn About Protecting Trans/Queer Youth If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist?	0
Gender and Political Economy: Revisiting Distributive Analysis	0
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:Lethal Intersections: Race, Gender, and Violence	0
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality. By Jane Ward. New York: New York University Press, 2020.	0
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Is the Transnational Female? Revisiting the Gender Metaphors of Global Connection	0
Ask a Feminist: Susan Stryker Discusses Trans Studies, Trans Feminism, and a More Trans Future with V Varun Chaudhry	0
:Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism	0
:Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg	0
Ambivalence as a Feminist Project	0
:A Short History of Trans Misogyny	0
Black Feminist Self-Help: Or, Notes on the Genres of Contemporary Black Feminist Political Life	0
Defensive Spectatorship, or, Watching as a Butch/Lesbian	0
The Insurgent Agency of Incarcerated Trans Women of Color	0
The Lesbian Menace: Notes on Lesbian Studies, in Three Voices	0
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
:Fierce, Fabulous, and Fluid: How Trans High School Students Work at Gender Nonconformity	0
The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism. By Patricia Zavella. New York: New York University Press, 2020.	0
Lesbian Police, Carceral Equality, and the Ambivalence of Confrontation	0
:Lesbian Porn Magazines and the Sex Wars: Reimagining Sex, Power, and Identity	0
13 Theses on Feminist Protest: A Manifesto	0
Forged in Fire: Constructing Women’s Studies Knowledge for Social Engagement, 1979–2019	0
Feminism after the Wrecking Ball: Doubling Down on Intersectional Political Commitment	0
Fantasy States: Nationalism, Intimacy, and Transgression in South African Women’s Political Memoirs	0