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Previous article FreeAbout the ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreLavett Ballard is an artist, art historian, curator, and author. She holds a dual bachelor’s degree in studio art and art history with a minor in museum studies from Rutgers University and an MFA in studio art from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Ballard’s art has been commissioned as a cover for the Time Magazine Woman of the Year special, a double edition released March 2020. She is a Yaddo Artist residency recipient for 2020, has been nominated for a Pew Foundation residency, and has been named by Black Art in America as one of the Top 10 Female Emerging Artists to Collect. Ballard’s work has been in film productions and exhibited at galleries and museums nationwide. Her work has been acquired by prominent collections such as the African American Museum of Philadelphia, the Colored Girls Museum, the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection, and the Grant and Tamia Hill private Collection.Siobhan Brooks is chair and associate professor of African American Studies at Cal State Fullerton. Her research is on sexuality, gender, and critical race theory. Her first book, Unequal Desires: Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2010), explores racism among Black and Latina women exotic dancers. Brooks is currently working on a book, under contract with Lexington Books, about the impact of hate crimes within Black and Latinx LGBT communities.Sahar Ghumkhor is a postdoctoral scholar in criminology specializing in Islamophobia, racism, gender, and political violence. Her first book, The Political Psychology of the Veil: The Impossible Body (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan), was published in 2020. She is currently working on two projects: one on the multicultural body in law and another on the politics of reconciliation in the aftermath of white supremacist violence. She is based in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia.Kate Grover is a PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation, “Amplified Activists: Feminist Responses to the Modern American Music Industry,” historicizes the gender-based inequalities impacting women musicians and examines efforts to create a more accessible and inclusive music industry.Arcelia Gutiérrez ([email protected]) is assistant professor of Latinx studies in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky. Her research focuses on Latinx media activism and advocacy from the 1980s to the present through a critical industry studies approach. She has recently published an article titled “No More Prostitutes, Pimps, and Pushers: Deploying Hispanic Panethnicity in Media Advocacy,” in Critical Studies in Media Communication 36, no. 4 (2019): 309–22.Valerie Heffernan is professor of literary and cultural studies at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. Her research interests lie at the intersection of gender and cultural studies, with a particular focus on how motherhood is constructed in contemporary culture. From 2014 to 2016, she was principal investigator of a project titled “The Cultural Transmission of Motherhood in Europe: A Case Study,” funded by the Irish Research Council. She is coeditor (with Gay Wilgus) of “Imagining Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century,” a special issue of Women: A Cultural Review (29, no. 1 [2018]), which will be republished in book form by Routledge in 2021.Océane Jasor is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. Prior to joining academia, she worked in development agencies broadly concerned with women’s empowerment and gender justice. Her current research investigates present-day feminist movements and discourses in South Africa.Annie Menzel, assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (occupied Ho-Chunk land) and former midwife, studies how racism, colonization, and gender-based oppression shape reproductive health and politics as well as reproductive justice as theory and praxis. She is completing revisions on her first book, “The Political Life of Black Infant Mortality,” under contract with the University of California Press, and also working on a second book, “Birthing Paradox: Race, Colonization, and Radicalism in US Midwifery.” She has published in venues including Political Research Quarterly, Political Theory, the Boston Review, and on the Feminist Wire.Memory Mphaphuli ([email protected]) is currently a PhD candidate at Ghent University. Memory is a feminist sociologist who is interested studying inequalities at the intersection of gender, race, class, and heterosexualities. She is the coauthor, with Gabriele Griffin, of “‘Ducking, Diving and Playing Along’: Negotiating Everyday Heteroerotic Subjectivity in the Field,” Qualitative Research Journal 20, no. 1 (2019): 34–48.Maree Pardy is an anthropologist specializing in gender, cultural difference, and global change. She has a critical research focus on gender and sexuality across cultures. Recent projects focus on legal anthropology; emotion, affect, images, and racism; feminism and rights-based campaigns. Her current project focuses on the turn to the law on matters of gender and cultural difference. She has published on women’s rights and transnational feminism, sexual violence in conflict, and legal approaches to forced marriage and female genital cutting. She teaches in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University.Negar Razavi is a political anthropologist who works critically on the intersections of national security, gender, expertise, imperialism, and US foreign policy in the Middle East. Receiving her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, Razavi has taught at William and Mary and Penn. Currently, she is working on a book that explores the culture and politics of security expertise in Washington, DC, looking at the impact of such experts on US policies across the Middle East.Nova Robinson is assistant professor of history and international studies at Seattle University. Her research is situated at the intersection of women’s history, Middle Eastern history, and the history of international governance. Her manuscript “Truly Sisters: Arab Women and International Women’s Rights” is under review at Stanford University Press. She is also coeditor, with Bonnie G. Smith, of the Routledge Global History of Feminism (2020). Recent articles have been published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, the Arab Studies Journal, and the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies.Yvette Russell ([email protected]) is of Whakatōhea (Ngai Tamahaua) descent and is a senior lecturer in law and feminist theory at the University of Bristol Law School. Yvette is the academic editor of the international law journal Feminist Legal Studies and the author (with Joanne Conaghan) of “Sexual History Evidence in Rape Trials,” forthcoming with Bristol University Press.LaKisha Michelle Simmons is associate professor of history and women’s and gender studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015). She has also written on Black college students and sexual cultures in Gender and History and on southern Black girl writers for Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature and is coediting a book, “The Global History of Black Girlhood,” with Corrine Field. Simmons is currently working on a book about the history of loss and Black motherhood in the nineteenth century.Letitia Smuts ([email protected]) is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. Letitia completed her PhD in Sociology at the Vrije University, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the South African Sociological Association for the term 2019–21. Her primary research and published works are in the areas of gender, sexual identities, stigma, and youth identities. Her current research focus on questions around heteronormative and normative gendered discourses in South African society.Stina Soderling is a postdoctoral fellow and visiting assistant professor in women’s and gender studies at Hamilton College. She holds a PhD in women’s and gender studies from Rutgers University. Her publications include “Queer Rurality and the Materiality of Time,” in Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies, ed. Mary L. Gray, Colin R. Johnson, and Brian J. Gilley (New York: New York University Press, 2016) and, together with Carly Thomsen and Melissa White, “Critical Mass, Precarious Value? Reflections on the Gender, Women’s, and Feminist Studies PhD in Austere Times,” Feminist Studies 44, no. 2 (2018): 229–52.Katherine Stone is assistant professor of German studies at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on the intersections between gender and memory in contemporary German culture. She is the author of Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature: Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2017). Her essays have appeared in journals including Violence against Women, European Journal of Cultural Studies, and Feminist Media Studies. Her next monograph will use cultural works to reconstruct how the cultural memory of wartime rape evolved in post-1945 Germany, with a focus on the role played by emotion in the reception of difficult histories. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 46, Number 2Winter 2021 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/710818 © 2020 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.