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Previous articleNext article FreeAbout the ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreSari Altschuler is associate professor of English, associate director of the Humanities Center, and founding director of Health, Humanities, and Society at Northeastern University. She is the author of The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).Mel Y. Chen is associate professor of gender and women’s studies and director of the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at UC Berkeley. Their first book is Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012), and their second book concerns intoxication’s involvement in archival histories of the interanimation of time, race, and disability. Chen coedits a Duke book series titled “Anima” and is part of a queer/trans-of-color arts collective in the San Francisco Bay Area.Elora Halim Chowdhury is professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and director of human rights at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research and teaching interests include transnational feminisms, critical development studies, human rights narrative, and cinema, with an emphasis on South Asia. She is the author of Transnationalism Reversed, Women Organizing Against Gendered Violence (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2011), which received the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association in 2012 and is the coeditor of several edited collections.S. Katherine Cooper, PhD, is assistant teaching professor of sociology at the University of Tampa, where she specializes in the areas of mass media, culture, and gender. She is particularly interested in the intersections of popular culture and social activism, and her recent research examines the narrative storytelling of women stand-up comics and audience reception of women’s comedy. Cooper’s audience reception research highlights the significance of in-group and out-group distinctions in how audience members interpret humor, and was recently published in the Communication Review 22, no. 2 (2019): 91–116.Cynthia Enloe is Research Professor at Clark University (Massachusetts). Among her recent books are The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging Persistent Patriarchy (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017), Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), and the new, updated edition of Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014).Diana Garvin is assistant professor of Italian with a specialty in Mediterranean studies at the University of Oregon. Her book, Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work, is forthcoming with the University of Toronto Press in January 2022. She has published articles in Critical Inquiry, Journal of Modern European History, Modern Italy, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Annali d’italianistica, gender/sexuality/Italy, Food and Foodways, and Design Issues.Evelynn M. Hammonds is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.Kristen Abatsis McHenry ([email protected]) earned her PhD in political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2013) and holds an MA in women’s studies from Georgia State University (2002). She teaches at Spelman College in the Comparative Women’s Studies Department. Her research interests include feminist technoscience, cancer and environment, and women’s health advocacy.Paula M. L. Moya is the Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of the Humanities and professor of English at Stanford University. She is also the Burton J. and Deedee McMurtry University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. Moya is the author of two monographs: The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015) and Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002). Moya’s persistent intellectual interests revolve around the dynamics of subordination. Currently, Moya is working with a team of scholars and researchers on a “Reading Race” online toolkit.Tracie Noles-Ross is a multidisciplinary storyteller living and working in Birmingham, Alabama. She holds a BA from the University of Alabama in Birmingham with a concentration in visual arts and creative writing. In her work, discarded and forgotten objects are reconfigured, braiding themes of memory, place, identity, and environmental issues, encouraging a shift in perspective. The process often disguises the object’s original form and purpose and brings forward new narratives. Strongly committed to understanding the place she is from, Noles-Ross explores aspects of the biologically diverse Alabama landscape, concepts of family, and Southern culture, deconstructing them for the purpose of improvement and growth while concurrently protecting, preserving, and celebrating this place she calls home. Noles-Ross is a member of the Alabama Women’s Caucus for the Arts and the Ground Floor Contemporary artists collective.Eesha Pandit (@EeshaP) is cofounder of the Center for Advancing Innovative Policy, where she brings over a decade of thought leadership and strategic communications around progressive policy. She has led policy, program, and communications work in innovative and groundbreaking ways that have shaped national and international movements for human rights, reproductive justice, and violence against women. She is a founding member of the Crunk Feminist Collective and South Asian Youth in Houston Unite. She is a queer South Asian immigrant based in Houston, Texas. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and the University of Chicago, where she studied political philosophy. Eesha loves hosting long, leisurely brunches with friends, listening to political podcasts nonstop, and any afternoon spent walking through a museum.Cindy Patton is professor of sociology and anthropology at Simon Fraser University, where she served as Canada Research Chair in Community, Culture, and Health and as head of the Health Research and Methods Training Facility from 2003–13. She has published in the areas of social study of medicine (especially AIDS), social movement theory, gender studies, and media studies. Her current research interests include the social study of medicine and health, especially social aspects of AIDS; bioethics; the history of sexuality; Continental theory; research design, especially mixed methods; and Taiwan studies.Poulomi Saha is associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her first book, An Empire of Touch: Women’s Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019), was awarded the Harry Levin Prize for outstanding first book by the American Comparative Literature Association in 2020. Her research in postcolonial studies and ethnic American literature—with a particular investment in psychoanalysis, critical theory, and feminist and queer studies—has been published in differences, Interventions, Journal of Modern Literature, and qui parle, among others.Dianna Shandy is associate provost for strategic academic initiatives and professor of anthropology at Macalester College. She served as the American Anthropological Association’s co-inaugural Gender Equity Seat. She is coauthor (with Karine Moe) of Glass Ceilings and 100-Hour Couples: What the Opt-Out Phenomenon Can Teach Us about Work and Family (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009) and “Transforming Teaching towards Empowered Learning: What #MeToo Taught Us about Anthropology,” Teaching and Learning Anthropology 2, no. 2 (2019): 62–71 (with M. Gabriela Torres). Her work spans US and international settings, focusing on gender, migration, and the entanglement of individual lives and policy.Sara Tafakori is a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow based at the Orient Institute Beirut and a visiting fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics. Her research intersects feminist theory, race, affect, and digital activism and memory studies. Her work has also appeared in Feminist Media Studies, Jadaliyya, and Open Democracy. She has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, and has taught at the London School of Economics, the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of Buckingham, and the University of Manchester, where she also received her PhD. She tweets at @TafakoriSara and can be emailed at [email protected]. She has a background in professional journalism and has worked for national newspapers in Iran.Dianna Taylor ([email protected]) is professor of philosophy and director of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. She is author of Sexual Violence and Humiliation: A Foucauldian-Feminist Perspective (New York: Routledge, 2020), editor of Michel Foucault: Key Concepts (Durham, NC: Acumen, 2010), and coeditor of Feminist Politics: Identity, Difference, and Agency (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007) and Feminism and the Final Foucault (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004). Her current research analyzes rage and counterviolence as feminist resources for resisting and preventing sexual violence.Miriam Ticktin is associate professor of anthropology at the New School for Social Research. She works at the intersection of medicine, science, and politics, drawing on transnational and decolonial feminist methodologies. Ticktin has written on immigration, humanitarianism, borders and border walls, and gender and race in France and the United States, including a book titled Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011) and a coedited volume called In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010). She is currently finishing a book on—and against—innocence.M. Gabriela Torres is professor and William Isaac Cole Chair in Anthropology at Wheaton College (Massachusetts). She currently serves as Ombudsperson for Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault for the American Anthropological Association. She is coeditor, with Kersti Yllö, of two volumes: Marital Rape: Consent, Marriage, and Social Change in Global Context (London: Oxford University Press, 2016) and Sexual Violence in Intimacy: Implications for Research and Policy in Global Health (London: Routledge, 2020). As a researcher, she has focused on the study of sexual violence and feminisms in the Americas as these relate to law, politics, and health.Zoe Vorsino is a PhD candidate and lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her research explores the ways in which increasingly intimate forms of surveillance, biometric and otherwise, instantiate unique relationships between state and body.Priscilla Wald is R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English and professor of gender, sexuality, and feminist studies at Duke University. She is the author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995) and Contagious: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008) and coeditor of American Literature. She is currently at work on a book-length monograph titled “Human Being after Genocide.” Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 47, Number 1Autumn 2021 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/715465 Views: 232 © 2021 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.