Legacies, Transitions, and New Directions at Signs.

The author reflects on the transformation of the context of feminist knowledge production due to the geopolitical shifts and the cognitive shifts generated by feminist activism and scholarship. Signs, as the leading journal in feminist scholarship, had served both as a journal of record, which track...

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Published in:Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 901 - 915
Format: Editorial
Published: University of Chicago Press Summer2006
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Summary:The author reflects on the transformation of the context of feminist knowledge production due to the geopolitical shifts and the cognitive shifts generated by feminist activism and scholarship. Signs, as the leading journal in feminist scholarship, had served both as a journal of record, which tracks the raced and gendered effects of ongoing geopolitical transformations, and as a principal agent that shapes the emergence and growth of interdisciplinary feminist studies.