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For Immediate Release: March 30, 2006
Contact: Suzanne Wu / 773-834-0386 / [log in to unmask]
The World According to Women: Signs 30th anniversary
The University of Chicago Press is delighted to commend Signs: The Journal
of Women in Culture and Society on its 30th anniversary. To mark three
decades of transformative feminist scholarship, the Rutgers University
Libraries have launched an archival exhibit exploring the complex
interactions between the growth and development of a premier academic
journal, the creation of an interdisciplinary field of feminist scholarship,
and landmark achievements by women during the course of thirty years of
transnational feminist activism.
Curated by Kayo Denda, the women's and gender studies librarian at Rutgers,
and Fernanda Perrone, the special collections librarian overseeing the Signs
archive, which is also located at Rutgers University, "Launching a Journal,
Building an Interdisciplinary Field: The Legacies of Signs" will be on
display in the Mabel Smith Douglass Room of the Mabel Smith Douglass Library
from April 1 to June 30, 2006.
On April 6, to launch the exhibit, eight of the ten scholars who have edited
Signs since its creation by the University of Chicago Press will participate
in a panel discussion of the editorial decisions that shaped the journal and
the field of women's studies (4-6 p.m.). Founding Editor Catharine
Stimpson, who launched the journal in 1975 at Barnard College, will be
joined on the panel by her successors, including Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi,
Stanford University (1980-1985); Jean O'Barr, Duke University (1985-1990);
Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres and Barbara Laslett, University of Minnesota
(1990-1995); Carolyn Allen, University of Washington (1995-2000); Kathryn
Norberg, UCLA (2000-2005); and Mary Hawkesworth, Rutgers University, who is
the current editor of the journal.
Both the panel and the archival exhibit explore the role of Signs in
transforming the known world. By placing women's lives, experiences, and
perspectives at the center of analysis, feminist scholarship published in
the journal corrects distorted, biased, and erroneous accounts of history,
society, politics, economics, science, philosophy, literature, and the arts.
"Launching a Journal, Building an Interdisciplinary Field" also examines the
innovative theories and concepts developed by feminist scholars to enrich
contemporary understandings of the world.
For further information, contact Kayo Denda (732.932.9407, ext 23) or Mary
Hawkesworth (732.932.9577 or 215.931.0178).
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The leading international journal in women's studies, Signs publishes
articles from a wide range of disciplines in a variety of voices. The focus
of essays ranges from cross-disciplinary theorizing and methodologies to
specific disciplinary issues, framed to enter conversations of interest
across disciplines.
The University of Chicago Press was established in 1891, making it one of
the oldest continuously operating university presses in the United States.
The Journals Division currently publishes 43 leading journals and 5 annuals
in the fields of social sciences, humanities, biological and medical
sciences, and the physical sciences.
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Suzanne Wu
Public Relations Coordinator
Journals Division
The University of Chicago Press
1427 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
voice: 773-834-0386
fax: 773-702-0172
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