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Coverage: 1975-2012 (Vols. 1-37)

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DESCRIPTION

Recognized as the leading international journal in women's studies, Signs has since 1975 been at the forefront of new directions in feminist scholarship.

Features published in Signs include:

Major articles. In-depth analyses addressing issues of critical, empirical, and theoretical importance to discipline-based and interdisciplinary feminist scholarship.
Comparative perspectives symposia. Analyses of contested concepts by feminist scholars and activists from various regions of the world.
Retrospectives. Genealogical excavations of the nature, presuppositions, and conditions of intelligibility of feminist scholarship.
New Directions essays. Systematic overviews of major approaches and emerging trends in discipline-based and interdisciplinary feminist studies.


Editorial Vision

Challenging the boundaries of knowledge concerning women's and men's lives in diverse regions of the globe, Signs publishes scholarship that raises new questions and develops innovative approaches to our understanding of the past and present. We welcome discipline-based and interdisciplinary research that illuminates processes of racialization, sexualization, and gendering that operate through interpersonal dynamics and familial relations; national and international institutions; laws and policies; organizational norms; practices of production and consumption; divisions of labor; patterns of skilling and deskilling; distributions of political rights and economic opportunities; regulation of domesticity, mobility, and migration; regimes of visibility and invisibility; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; verbal and visual representations; ideological formations; and cultural production. Whether critical, theoretical, or empirical, articles published in Signs generate theories, concepts, analytical categories, and methodological innovations that enable new ways of thinking, new ways of seeing, and new ways of living.

- Mary Hawkesworth



EDITORIAL BOARD

Editor
Mary Hawkesworth

Senior Editor
Karen Alexander

Managing Editor
Miranda Outman-Kramer

Deputy Editor
Andrew Mazzaschi

Manuscript Editor
Anne Keefe
Acquisitions and Art Coordinator
Amari Verástegui

Editorial Interns
Alison R. Boldero
Anna Zailik

Sponsor
Rutgers University Department of Women's and Gender Studies

Founding Editor
Catharine R. Stimpson

Editors Emeritae

Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi
Jean F. O'Barr
Ruth-Ellen Boethcher Joeres

Barbara Laslett
Carolyn Allen
Judith A. Howard

Sandra Harding
Kathryn Norberg

Associate Editors

Laura Ahern
Nikol Alexander-Floyd
Barbara Balliet
Ethel Brooks
Carolyn Brown
Winifred Brown Glaude
Charlotte Bunch
Abena Busia
Susan Carroll
Indrani Chatterjee
Cheryl Clarke
Dorothy Sue Cobble
Ed Cohen
Barbara Cooper
Drucilla Cornell
Cynthia Daniels
Harriet Davidson
Belinda Davis


Carlos Ulises Decena
Marianne Dekoven
Alice Echols
Belinda Edmondson
Ann Fabian
Kate Flint
Judith Gerson
Mary Gossy
Mary Hartman
Angelique Haugerud
Nancy Hewitt
Dorothy Hodgson
Allan Punzalan Isaac
Jyl Josephson
Temma Kaplan
Samira Kawash
Joanna Kempner
Renée Larrier

Jacquelyn Litt
Laura Lomas
Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
Fran Mascia-Lees
Jasbir Puar
Anna Yolanda Ramos-Zayas
Joanna Regulska
Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
Phillip Rothwell
Zakia Salime
Susan Sidlauskas
Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui
Bonnie G. Smith
Arlene Stein
Jacqueline Thaw
Meredeth Turshen
Cheryl Wall

International Advisory Board

Edna Acosta-Belén
M. Jacqui Alexander
Catherine Belsey
Francine D. Blau
Paola Bono
Liana Borghi
Judith Butler
Hazel Carby
Sue-Ellen Case
Rey Chow
Julia O'Connell Davidson
Irene Dölling
Daša Duhaček
Cynthia H. Enloe
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Patricia Fernández-Kelly


Jane Flax
Nancy Fraser
Malgorzata Fuszara
Judith Kegan Gardiner
Linda Gordon
Donna Haraway
Heidi Hartmann
Linda K. Kerber
Saba Gul Khattak
Annette Kuhn
Lisa Lowe
Amina Mama
Jane Mansbridge
Biddy Martin
Emily Martin
Jill Julius Matthews


Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Henrietta L. Moore
Rosalind Pollack Petchesky
Janice Radway
Hilary Rose 
Luana Ross
Gayle Rubin
Londa L. Schiebinger
Joan W. Scott
Carol C. Smart
Dorothy E. Smith
Sau-ling Cynthia Wong


CONTACT EDITORIAL OFFICE

Please address all editorial correspondence to:

Editor
Signs Journal
Rutgers University
Voorhees Chapel, Room 8
5 Chapel Drive
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Telephone: (732) 932-2841; Fax: (732) 932-5732

signs@signs.rutgers.edu