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Previous article FreeAbout the ContributorsFull TextPDF Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreAlix Beeston is senior lecturer in English at Cardiff University. She is the author of In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018) and the digital project Object Women: A History of Women in Photography (instagram.com/objectwomen). Her essays appear in PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, Feminist Modernist Studies, Arizona Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is currently writing a generalist history of women in photography and beginning work on a major new research project exploring the feminist possibilities of unfinished literary texts and films.V Varun Chaudhry is currently on faculty in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Brandeis University. His writing appears or is forthcoming in Transgender Studies Quarterly, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, American Anthropologist, Critical Inquiry, the Foundation Review, and the Oxford Handbook of Global LGBT and Sexual Diversity Politics.Soraya Chemaly is an award-winning writer and activist whose work focuses on the role of gender in culture, politics, religion, and media. She is the director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project. She writes and speaks regularly about gender, media, tech, education, women’s rights, sexual violence, and free speech. Her work appears in a variety of media, including Time, the Guardian, the Nation, the Huffington Post, and the Atlantic.Maliha Chishti is a gender and peace-building consultant and lecturer at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Her research specialization is in gender, development, and postconflict peace building in Muslim-majority countries. As the former director of the Hague Appeal for Peace at the United Nations, she helped to initiate the historic Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security.Marlo D. David is director of the Purdue African American Studies Research Center and associate professor of English and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Purdue University. Her research focuses on issues of gender and sexuality in contemporary African American literature and culture. She is the author of Mama’s Gun: Black Maternal Figures and the Politics of Transgression (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2016), which examines how writers use representations of transgressive black motherhood to challenge neoliberal ideologies about black families. Her scholarly essays have appeared in Tulsa Studies of Women’s Literature, Black Camera: An International Film Journal, and the African American Review.Nadia Guessous ([email protected]) is assistant professor of feminist and gender studies at Colorado College. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of transnational feminist theory, postcolonial anthropology, and Middle Eastern and critical Muslim studies. Her current book project is an ethnography of Moroccan secular feminism in which she explores the tragedy of progress and the conscripting logics of colonial modernity. Nadia’s work has been published in Confluences Méditerranée, the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Review of Middle East Studies, American Anthropologist, and Jadaliyya. She is also the author of a study on gender and political violence during the years of lead in Morocco, commissioned by the Moroccan Equity and Reconciliation Commission.Sandya Hewamanne is the author of Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone: Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008); Sri Lanka’s Global Factory Workers: (Un)Disciplined Desires and Sexual Struggles in a Post-Colonial Society (New York: Routledge, 2016); and Stitching Identities Anew in Rural Sri Lanka: Gender, Entrepreneurship, and Politics of Contentment (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). She is the founder and director of IMPACT-Global Work, a nonprofit that connects academics and activists to initiate beneficial policies for global workers in third-world countries.Veronica Hollinger is professor emerita of cultural studies at Trent University, Ontario, Canada. She is a long-time coeditor of Science Fiction Studies and coeditor of The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010). She is also coeditor of special issues of Science Fiction Studies on Chinese science fiction (40, no. 1 [March 2013]) and on science fiction and the climate crisis (45, no. 3 [November 2018]). Her current research interests include feminist and queer science fiction, Chinese science fiction, posthumanism, and ecological theory.Fauzia Husain is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE) at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of Virginia in 2019. Her research investigates how women in developing world contexts such as Pakistan contest bias, forge alliances, and pursue dignity at work and in their intimate lives.Carla Kaplan, the chair of the Board of Associate Editors of Signs, is Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature in English and professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Northeastern University. She is the founding director of Northeastern University’s Humanities Center and currently serves as cochair of the board of directors for the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality. Her research interests include literature, African American studies, biography, and women’s and gender studies. She is the author of Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Harlem Renaissance (New York: HarperCollins, 2013), Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters (New York: Doubleday, 2001), and The Erotics of Talk: Women’s Writing and Feminist Paradigms (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).Lori J. Marso is Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies and professor of political science at Union College in Schenectady, NY. She is author, most recently, of Politics with Beauvoir: Freedom in the Encounter (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017), which in 2018 received the Inaugural Pamela Jensen Award for the Best Book in Politics, Literature, and Film from the American Political Science Association. She is also editor of Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers (New York: Routledge, 2016) and coeditor, with Bonnie Honig, of Politics, Theory, and Film: Critical Encounters with Lars von Trier (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).Julie Mehretu is a world-renowned painter born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1970, who lives and works in New York City and Berlin. She received a master’s of fine art with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997. Mehretu is a recipient of many awards, including the MacArthur Award (2005) and the US Department of State Medal of Arts Award (2015). Mehretu makes large-scale, gestural paintings that are built up through layers of acrylic paint on canvas overlaid with mark-making using pencil, pen, ink, and paint. Mehretu’s work conveys a layering and compression of time, space, and place and a collapse of art-historical references, from the dynamism of the Italian futurists and the geometric abstraction of Malevich to the enveloping scale of abstract expressionist color field painting. She has shown her work extensively in international and national solo and group exhibitions and is represented in public and private collections around the world. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is represented by Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.Durba Mitra is assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality and Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. Mitra works at the intersection of feminist and queer studies. Her research and teaching focus on the history of sexuality, the history of science and medicine, and women and gender in the colonial and postcolonial world. In her current book project, Mitra examines the central place of sexuality in the development of the social sciences in India and across the colonial world. Mitra’s research has appeared in Economic and Political Weekly, History and Technology, and Feminist Studies, and has been supported by fellowships at the Penn Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania, Bowdoin College, and as a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar to India.Grace Tacherra Morrison ([email protected]) is health education coordinator at 3rd Street Youth Center and Clinic, where she leads and develops a paid fellowship program through which young adults train to become health-care professionals. She completed her MA in gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she was awarded the Deborah A. Hobbins Award for her work on reproductive justice.Jennifer C. Nash is associate professor of African American studies and gender and sexuality studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014) and Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019), as well as articles appearing in Feminist Review, American Quarterly, Social Text, GLQ, and Feminist Studies.Shoniqua Roach ([email protected]), PhD in performance studies, Northwestern University (2017), is assistant professor of African and African American studies and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Brandeis University, where her research and teaching focus on black feminism, black sexuality studies, and black literary and visual cultures. Her recent and forthcoming publications include writing in Women and Performance, Feminist Theory, Signs, differences, and the Black Scholar. She is currently at work on her book manuscript, provisionally titled “Black Sexual Sanctuaries,” that explores the possibilities for black women’s sexual citizenship and erotic freedom within overlooked or dismissed domains, including privacy and domesticity.Sami Schalk (samischalk.com) is an assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research focuses on disability, race, and gender in contemporary American literature and culture. Schalk is the author of Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018) and is currently working on a second book on disability politics in post–Civil Rights black activism.Barbara Sutton is an associate professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010), winner of the 2011 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association. Her latest book, Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina (New York: New York University Press, 2018), received an honorable mention for the 2019 Distinguished Book Award by the American Sociological Association Sex and Gender Section.Carly Thomsen ([email protected]) is assistant professor of gender, sexuality, and feminist studies at Middlebury College. She completed her PhD in feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a postdoctoral fellowship at Rice University. Her work on reproductive justice, LGBTQ activism, queer rurality, and feminist pedagogy has been published in Hypatia, Feminist Studies, Feminist Formations, Atlantis, Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies, The Legacies of Matthew Shepard: Twenty Years Later, edited by Mary L. Gray, Colin R. Johnson, and Brian J. Gilley (New York: New York University Press, 2016), and the Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory, edited by Lisa Disch and Mary E. Hawkesworth (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).Nayla Luz Vacarezza is an assistant researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research in Argentina. She holds a doctoral degree in social sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. She is affiliated with the Gino Germani Research Institute and is also an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Buenos Aires. She is coauthor, with July Chaneton, of La intemperie y lo intempestivo: Experiencias del aborto voluntario en el relato de mujeres y varones (Buenos Aires: Marea, 2011). The book was declared of interest by the honorable Chamber of Deputies of Argentina’s National Congress in 2012.Rebecca Wanzo is associate professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research interests include African American literature and culture, feminist theory, media studies, critical race theory, and graphic storytelling. She is the author of The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental Political Storytelling (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2009) and The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging (New York: New York University Press, 2020).Bonnie Washick has a long-standing interest in how our responses to the unfamiliar are shaped by both design and structural inequality. Her 2017 publication, “An ‘App’ for That,” in Trigger Warnings: History, Theory, Context, edited by Emily J. M. Knox (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield), explores many of the themes that appear in her contribution to this volume. Bonnie now works in advocacy. She was a postdoctoral research associate, jointly appointed to the Departments of Political Science and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois from 2016 to 2018. She also taught at the University of Michigan, where she completed her PhD in political science.Terrion L. Williamson is associate professor of African American and African studies at the University of Minnesota, where she is also core faculty in American studies. She is the director of the Black Midwest Initiative and the author of Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life (New York: Fordham University, 2017). Her areas of expertise include black cultural studies, feminist theory, racialized gender violence, Midwestern studies, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century African American literature, and her work has been published in journals including Social Text, Souls, and CR: The New Centennial Review. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 45, Number 3Spring 2020 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/706613 Views: 108 © 2020 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

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