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Previous article FreeAbout the ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreMorgan E. Barry is a PhD candidate at Northwestern University’s Department of History and a fellow of Northwestern’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. She studies how ideas about race, gender, and sexuality shaped political repression and surveillance practices in the twentieth-century United States. Barry holds an MA in history from Northwestern (2020) and a BA from Boston University (2017).Jana Cattien is assistant professor in social and political philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. She holds a PhD from SOAS, University of London, and works mainly in feminist philosophy and critical race and postcolonial theory. Recent publications include “What Is Leitkultur?,” New German Critique 48, no. 1 (2021): 181–209; “On (Not) Becoming Chinese: The Racialization of Compliance,” Radical Philosophy 212 (2022): 3–9; and, with Richard Stopford, “The Appropriating Subject: Cultural Appreciation, Property, and Entitlement,” Philosophy and Social Criticism (prepublished online, March 2022).Suyun Choi is assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana. Her research focuses neoliberal reconfigurations of care that generates new conditions of labor and power during a care crisis in South Korea. Her recent work appears in Asian Journal of Women’s Studies. She is working on a book project tentatively titled “Going into Labor: A Crisis and the Work of Care in Neoliberal South Korea.”Susana Galán is a researcher in gender studies and the digital sphere at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She has a PhD in women’s and gender studies from Rutgers University. Her work has been published in the Journal of International Women’s Studies, the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research, the Observatori del Conflicte Social, and the books Freedom without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions, edited by Frances S. Hasso and Zakia Salime (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), and Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings, edited by Deen Sharp and Claire Panetta (New York: Terreform, 2016).Jennifer Garrison ([email protected]) is a scholar of medieval literature and feminist theory, as well as a trade union organizer. Her research focuses on how medieval religious discourses shape and restrict individuals’ access to power. Her first book, Challenging Communion, was published by The Ohio State University Press in 2017. Recent articles include “Transforming Community: Women’s Rape Narratives and Gower’s Confessio Amantis,” Medieval Feminist Forum 57, no. 1 (2021), and “Mankind and the Masculine Pleasures of Penance,” Exemplaria 31 (2019): 46–62. She holds a PhD in English literature from Rutgers University.Amanda Gouws ([email protected]) is distinguished professor of political science at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, where she holds a SARChI Chair in Gender Politics. Her specialization is South African politics and gender politics. Her recent publications include Gender and Multiculturalism: North/South Perspectives, coedited with Daiva Stasiulis (London: Routledge, 2014); Feminist Institutionalism in South Africa: Designing for Gender Equality (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022); and “Reducing Women to Bare Life: Sexual Violence in South Africa,” Feminist Encounters 5, no. 1 (2021). In 2018 and 2019 she received the Rector’s Award for Media Engagement and Thought Leadership. She was a commissioner for the South African Commission for Gender Equality from 2012 to 2014.Joss Greene is assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis. He studies the material force of gender classification, the racialized production of gender, and how people challenge regulatory institutions individually and collectively. Empirically, most of his work centers trans people’s experiences with the criminal legal system. He is currently writing a book about gender boundary struggles in California prisons from the 1940s through 2018. His scholarship is informed by his involvement in social movement organizations, such as Survived & Punished NY and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, where he served as a core collective member.Margaret Henderson teaches contemporary women’s writing and gender studies in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland. Her most recent books are Kathy Acker: Punk Writer (London: Routledge, 2021) and, with Anthea Taylor, Postfeminism in Context: Women, Australian Popular Culture, and the Unsettling of Postfeminism (London: Routledge, 2020). She is currently working on a study of women’s punk and postpunk memoirs.Sarah Heying is a PhD candidate in English and gender studies at the University of Mississippi. They recently published “‘I Was Returning to See if the Ghosts Were Still Astirring’: Southern Lesbian Reflexivity as Social Movement in Feminary (1979–1982),” in Journal of Lesbian Studies 26, no. 1 (2021): 12–26, and they also have writing in Bitch, Autostraddle, Literary Hub, Lambda Literary, the Greensboro Review, West Branch, and elsewhere. They currently live in Memphis, TN, where you can catch them on stage as the drag cowpunk Ponyboi. Check out more of their work at sarahheying.com.Lina-Maria Murillo is assistant professor in the Departments of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, History, and Latina/o/x Studies at the University of Iowa. She is completing her first book, titled “Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” under contract with University of North Carolina Press. Her research is supported by several grants and fellowships, including from the American Association of University Women, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Ford Foundation. Murillo’s public writing appears in the Washington Post, Rewire News, and Nursing Clio. She is also codirector, with Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz, of the Maternal Health and Reproductive Politics Obermann Collaborative at the University of Iowa.Shoniqua Roach is assistant professor of African and African American studies and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Brandeis University. Roach is completing her book manuscript, “Black Dwelling: Home-Making and Erotic Freedom,” an intellectual and cultural history of Black domestic spaces as paradigmatic sites of state invasion and Black feminist enactments of erotic freedom. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation, and the Mandel Foundation, among others.Mairead Sullivan is associate professor of women’s and gender studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Sullivan is the author of Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022). Sullivan has published work in differences, the Journal of Homosexuality, the Journal of Lesbian Studies, Signs, and Women’s Studies Quarterly, among others.Anthea Taylor is associate professor in gender and cultural studies at the University of Sydney. She is the author of four monographs, including Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and Postfeminism in Context: Women, Australian Culture, and the Unsettling of Postfeminism, with Margaret Henderson (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019), and the coeditor of two collections.Maggie Taylor is an artist who lives at the edge of a small swamp on the outskirts of Gainesville, Florida. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1961 and moved to Florida at the age of eleven. Her childhood was spent watching countless hours of situation comedies and science fiction on television; later she received a philosophy degree from Yale University. A little later she got a master’s degree in photography from the University of Florida. Her digital composites have been widely exhibited and have been collected by many museums in the United States and other countries.Sofía Ugarte is a postdoctoral researcher in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Her work on racialized migration, care, and gender in Chile has been published in American Anthropologist, and Focaal, among others. Sofía’s book manuscript, “States of Care: Affective Labor and Racism in Migrant Chile,” explores how racialized migrant women’s care practices impact the politics of reproduction in Chile and Latin America. More broadly, her research seeks to rework care theories from an intersectional and decolonial perspective to understand contemporary life-sustaining actions in a world in crisis. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 48, Number 4Summer 2023 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/724422 © 2023 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.