Signs

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Ask a Feminist: Jennifer Fluri Discusses the Gender Politics of the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan with Sandra McEvoy	50
Espanta Cigüeñas: Race and Abortion in the US-Mexico Borderlands	41
About the Contributors	35
Mountains of Memories: “Visibilizing” Solidarity and Multivocality in Central American Women’sEncuentros	34
The Fabric of Resistance: Care, Domestic Objects, and HIV Self-Narratives in the Work of Kia LaBeija and Jessica Whitbread	25
Neither Emancipation nor Exclusion: Rethinking Politics of Piety throughHanımlara Mahsus Gazete	20
Pedagogy, Politics, and Betty Dodson’sLiberating Masturbation	15
“Be Soft like Water, Little Woman”: Cultivating Postfeminism in Postsocialist China	12
A Note from the Editor	11
Front Matter	10
From Roadblocks to TransFeminist Fury: Creating Power, Decolonizing Territories, and Reproducing Life in Argentina	10
:Archive of Tongues: An Intimate History of Brownness	10
Flânerie as a Mode of Pleasure: Lessons from a Working-Class Flâneuse	10
A Note from the Editor	9
A “Technical Approach”? An Ethnographic Exploration of Menstrual Regulation as Pregnancy Termination in Bangladesh	8
“To Feel Their Warmth, Sisterhood, and Closeness”: Australian Feminist Entanglements with Chinese and Vietnamese Communism, 1969–1979	8
A Note from the Editor	8
A Note from the Editor	7
:The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality	7
A Prosthetic Popular Feminism in Postfeminist Times:Mrs. America’s Cool Feminism and Antifeminist Celebrity	7
:Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970	7
A Note from the Editor	6
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
Acuerpar: The Decolonial Feminist Call for Embodied Solidarity	5
Narratives of Harm: Accounts and Displacements of Faculty Sexual Harassment of Students	4

“Tone Down a Bit”: Multi-Scalar Struggles among Feminist Activists in Post-2010 Kenya	4
Should Feminists Be Individualists? A Puzzle from Gender and Development Practice	4
:Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction	4
Trans-Exclusionary Reactionary Feminism and the Politics of Ressentiment	4
Semiotic Violence against Women: Theorizing Harms against Female Politicians	4
The Marriage of Care Labor and Self-Care: Marriage Migration and Neoliberal Refashioning of Care in South Korea	4
Silencing Feminism? Gender and the Rise of the Nationalist Far Right in Spain	3
Reductive: Andrea Dworkin’s Style as Thought	3
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Patriarchal (Dis)orders: Backlash as Crisis Management	3
Tactical Everydayness in Taiwanese Queer Discourse: A Personal Turn in Small Talk	3
Toward a Feminist Phenomenology of Temporal Harm	3
About the Contributors	3
New Directions in Feminism and Global Race Studies: A Book Conversation	3
The Report, or, Whatever Happened to Third World Feminist Theory?	3
Feminist Rage: Countering Sexual Violence and Sexual Humiliation	3
Herbivorous Men, Carnivorous Women: Doing Masculinity and Femininity in Japanese “Marriage Hunting”	3
Wikiality within the Manosphere: Namuwiki, Gender Equalism, and Antifeminist Disinformation in the Post-Truth Era	3
Buying Safety: Neoliberalism, Gendered Violence, and the Everyday State in South Africa	3
A Note from the Editor	3
Grossed Out: The Carceral Logics of Disgust and the Demands of #MeToo	3
Labors of Love: Sex, Work, and Good Mothering in the Globalizing City	3
About the Contributors	3
About the Contributors	2
:In the Company of Radical Women Writers	2
Red Roots of Solidarity: Paula Gunn Allen and the Queer Audiences of Intellectual Sovereignty	2
Bathroom Realism and the Women of Cable TV	2
:Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam	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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Challenging the Antipolitics of Regimes of Care: Young African Men in Italy Resist Precarious Futures	2
:Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South	2
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:Good Guys, Bad Guys: The Perils of Men’s Gender Activism	2
A Note from the Editor	2
Connective Labor as Emotional Vocabulary: Inequality, Mutuality, and the Politics of Feelings in Care-Work	1
A Note from the Editor	1
Book Review	1
:Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China	1
Double-Edged Care: Toward a Politics of Care Justice	1
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“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
Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Mobilization of Regret	1
Feminist Fertility Awareness? Sexual and Reproductive Knowledge in a Post-Roe World	1
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The 2023 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship	1
Rainbows and Mud: Experiments in LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Care	1

The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes. By Jill Richards. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.	1
Butler Traveling East: On Practices of Reading and Translating	1
Getting Fracked: Gender Politics in Fracking Discourse	1
“My Body, My Choice, My Country, My Voice”: Kosovar Film, Women’s Rights, and Postwar Trauma	1
Front Matter	1
:The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism	0
Plant Sex: A Cultural Analysis of the Gendering of Plant Reproduction Processes	0
COVID-19 and the Language of Racism	0
Antigenderism and White Feminist Reconstructions in Germany	0
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Chatbots, Gender, and Race on Web 2.0 Platforms: Tay.AI as Monstrous Femininity and Abject Whiteness	0
:Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism	0
“We Stayed Up All Night Rapping”: Toward a History of Feminist Consciousness-Raising, 1964–1986	0
Fantasy States: Nationalism, Intimacy, and Transgression in South African Women’s Political Memoirs	0
Being Fully Human: Linda Smart Chubb and the Praxis of Black Feminist Internationalism	0
“Sisters Together”: Antiracist Activism and the Fight for Trans Inclusion at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival	0
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Reclaiming Autonomy: The Changing Landscape of Mexican Abortion Activism	0
Signs Special Issue: Complexities of Care and Caring	0
Settler Colonialism in Black and White: Roberta Sykes, Germaine Greer, and the Different Embodied Experiences of Womanhood, Rape, and Sovereignty	0
Uproarious: How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth. By Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.	0
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About the Contributors	0
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Digital Feminism beyond Nativism and Empire: Affective Territories of Recognition and Competing Claims to Suffering in Iranian Women’s Campaigns	0
About the Contributors	0
:Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry	0
“How Not to Get Killed”: Feminist Aftercare in the Dorothy Allison Papers	0
:Birthing Black Mothers	0
The Urgent Need for Radical Feminism Today	0
:After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It	0
Shared Futures or Financialized Futures: Polygenic Screening, Reproductive Justice, and the Radical Charge of Collective Care	0
Marrying to Labor, Laboring to Marry: Gender and the Relational Patterns of Migration from Vietnam	0
Ibn ʿArabī and Mystical Disruptions of Gender: Theoretical Explorations in Islamic Feminism	0
Just Responsibility: A Human Rights Theory of Global Justice. By Brooke A. Ackerly. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.	0
In Defense of Circular Time: Cycles of Feminist Activism in Argentina and Brazil	0
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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
Imagining Fetal Citizens in Brazil: On the Transnational Circulation of Reproductive Technologies and the “Statute of the Unborn”	0
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Forged in Fire: Constructing Women’s Studies Knowledge for Social Engagement, 1979–2019	0
Speaking Truth to Power in a Digital Age: #MeToo as Parrhesia	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 Insurgent Agency of Incarcerated Trans Women of Color	0
:Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898–1941	0
Performing Work: Maids, Melodrama, and Imitation of Life as Film Noir	0
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Subversive Epidemiology in Abortion Care: Reproductive Governance from the Global to the Local in Argentina and Senegal	0
A Note from the Editor	0
The Inequality of Intersectionalities in Chicago’s First-Wave Women’s Movement	0
Closets and Mirrors: First-Wave Feminist Translators, Nonauthorship, and the Fascist State	0
Victory or Defeat? The Dilemma of Palliative Schooling in an Era of Racial Equity	0
Ask a Feminist: Reproduction in the Age of Epigenetics; A Conversation with Natali Valdez, Sarah S. Richardson, and Rene Almeling	0
Show and Tell: Life History and Hijra Activism in India	0
A Moment or a Movement? The Pandemic, Political Upheaval, and Racial Reckoning	0
“I Am Writing You in Reference to Myself”: White Wellness, Black Feminism, and the Politics of Self-Care	0
Building a Feminist Commons in the Time of COVID-19	0
Dereliction, Due Process, and Decorum: The Crises of Title IX	0
Speaking of Failure: Modern Masculinity and Medieval Confession	0
Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Mobilization of Regret	0
On Not Being Born: Contraceptive Experiments in the Era of Demopower	0
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Feminism after the Wrecking Ball: Doubling Down on Intersectional Political Commitment	0
Big Feminism: The Fiftieth Anniversary Issue of Signs	0
A Social Reproduction Theory of Gender Violence	0
“This Is a Work for the Mothers”: Strategic Maternalism against the Far Right	0
From Cyborg Irony to Oriental Fantasy: The Racial Limits of Cyborg Feminisms in Ex Machina and Ghost in the Shell	0
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Femicide as “National Emergency”: Risks and Rewards when Framing Violence against Women in Israel/Palestine	0
A Note from the Editor	0
The 2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship	0
:Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China	0
About the Contributors	0
Ask a Feminist: Public Feminism, a Conversation with Marcie Bianco and Andi Zeisler	0
Introduction: Complexities of Care and Caring	0
Thanks to Reviewers	0
“You Are Not Alone”: Feminist Memorialization and the Present Tense of Gender-Based Violence in the Monument Quilt	0
The 2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship	0
A Note from the Editor	0

Chinese Racialization and Technologies of Mothering: Continuities in Straight and Queer Reproduction in Singapore	0
Ambivalence as a Feminist Project	0
Ask a Feminist: Susan Stryker Discusses Trans Studies, Trans Feminism, and a More Trans Future with V Varun Chaudhry	0
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The Tragedy of Heterosexuality. By Jane Ward. New York: New York University Press, 2020.	0
:In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America	0
About the Contributors	0
Rethinking “First Wave” Feminisms: An Introduction	0
Collectivity and Feminist History: Situating Luce Irigaray	0
About the Contributors	0
:Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans	0
:Lethal Intersections: Race, Gender, and Violence	0
Confronting Servitude: Asian Immigrant Women Workers in State-Funded Homecare	0
White Women and Antiracism in the (Post)Colony of South Africa	0
Antifeminism, Anti-Blackness, and Anti-Oldness: The Intersectional Aesthetics of Aging in the Nineteenth-Century United States	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
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“Woman as Wife, Mother, and Home-Maker”: Equal Rights International and Australian Feminists’ Interwar Advocacy for Mothers’ Economic Rights	0
A Note from the Editor	0
About the Contributors	0
“Sisters in Asia”: The League of Nations and Feminist Anticolonial Internationalism	0
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Thanks to Reviewers	0
Toward Aspirational Care Labor: Dementia Care Meets Documentary Filmmaking	0
:Lesbian Porn Magazines and the Sex Wars: Reimagining Sex, Power, and Identity	0
Reconceptualizing the Real in the Struggle for Gender: From Gold Standard to Fragile Accomplishment	0
:Fierce, Fabulous, and Fluid: How Trans High School Students Work at Gender Nonconformity	0
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The Survivor Imperative: Sexual Violence, Victimhood, and Neoliberalism	0
13 Theses on Feminist Protest: A Manifesto	0
“SUBJECT’s Wife”: The Racialized Gender Logics of Anticommunism and State Surveillance	0
Beyond the State: Abortion Care Activism in Peru	0
The New Servant Problem: Paid Domestic Work, Race, and the Gendered Division of Labor	0
Femininity and the Paradox of Trust Building in Patriarchies during COVID-19	0
Donald Trump, the Resistance, and the Queering of Democracy	0
Caring for a Responsible Self: Migrant Motherhood and the Politics of Reproduction	0
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“More of Us beyond This Room”: Feminist (Hi)stories and Solidarity in The Future of Another Timeline	0
Reproductive Health Care from Fascism to Forza Nuova	0
Gender Skepticism, Trans Livability, and Feminist Critique	0
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About the Contributors	0
Healing as a Feminist Praxis: Combatting Gender Violence through Art and Protest in the Americas	0
The Labor of the Sabines: Why We Need Art to Theorize Sexual Violence	0
Home Renovation as National Modernization: Colonial Fantasies and Postcolonial Aspirations in South African Township Tourism	0
The Delightfully Scatological Humor of Ali Wong: Cringe Comedy and Neoliberal Maternal Discourse	0
Femi(ni)cide: A Cartography	0
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Gender and Political Economy: Revisiting Distributive Analysis	0
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Reclaiming Religious and Legal Authority: An Ethnography of the Women’s Shari’a Courts in India	0
Race, Gender, and Sanism: Remapping Mad Feminist Genealogies	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
Big Feminism: The Fiftieth Anniversary Issue of Signs	0
Is the Transnational Female? Revisiting the Gender Metaphors of Global Connection	0
The 2023 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship	0
About the Contributors	0
Front Matter	0
Reproductive Subjects and Shifting Global Health Policy Discourses	0
Feminisms in the Air	0
Birth Rights and Wrongs: Reproductive Outsiders in Azar v. Garza and Madrigal v. Quilligan	0
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The Logic of Misogyny in Sport	0
Sex Scenes, Television, and Disavowed Sex Work	0
Thanks to Reviewers	0
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:Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer	0
About the Contributors	0
:Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg	0
Pregnant Persons as a Gender Category: A Trans Feminist Analysis of Pregnancy Discrimination	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
Rape of the Earth: Ana Mendieta’s Defense of a Metaphor	0
Black Feminist Self-Help: Or, Notes on the Genres of Contemporary Black Feminist Political Life	0
The Body Politic: Representation and Reproductive Feminist Jurisprudence	0
Sexual Governmentality and the Woman at/as Risk in Revolutionary Egypt	0
Veiling and Unveiling: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Travels in Iran and Afghanistan	0
“The Female Condition”: (Re)thinking Marriage, Prostitution, and Feminist Theories of Abolition	0
Generating Intimacy: Rage, Female Friendship, and the Heteropatriarchal Household on TV after #MeToo	0
“Hang the Rapists Immediately”: Rape Vigilantism, State Violence, and Impunity in Contemporary India	0
“Let Your Ovaries Rest”: Pathologizing Hormones in Japan’s New Economy	0
Rules Matter: How Can Professional Associations Remap Intracommunity Norms around Sexual Violence?	0
Rise Up in Mirth: On Angry Feminist Humor and Why Taking It Personally Is Political	0
:Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology	0
Arson Girls, Match-Strikers, and Firestarters: A Reflection on Rage, Racialization, and the Carcerality of Girlhood	0
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White Men Spitting	0
About the Contributors	0
Femi(ni)cide through a Decolonial Lens: Literary Interventions and the Relational Turn	0
Beyond the Treatment Room: The Psyche-Body-Society Care Politics of Cairo’s El-Nadeem	0
Kawaii Sweets and Boba Liberalism: Desire and Disgust for Asian American Girl Culture	0
About the Contributors	0
A Note from the Editor	0