Signs (journal)
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Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
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Signs |
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| Discipline | Women's studies |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Suzanna Danuta Walters |
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University of Chicago Press (United States)
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Publication history
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1975-present |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
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| ISSN | 0097-9740 (print) 1545-6943 (web) |
| LCCN | 75649469 |
| OCLC no. | 223703061 |
| JSTOR | 00979740 |
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society is a peer-reviewed feminist academic journal. It was established in 1975 by Catharine R. Stimpson, and is published quarterly by the University of Chicago Press.
Scope[edit]
Signs publishes essays examining women's and men's lives around the globe from both historical and contemporary perspectives, as well as theoretical and critical articles addressing processes of racialization, sexualization, and gendering.[1]
History[edit]
From 1975-1980, the founding editor-in-chief of Signs was Catharine R. Stimpson (Barnard College). From 1980-1985, the editor-in-chief was Barbara C. Gelpi (Stanford University). From 1985-1990, the editor-in-chief was Jean Fox O'Barr (Duke University). She was succeeded from 1990-1995 by Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres and Barbara Laslett (University of Minnesota). From 1995-2000, the editors-in-chief were Carolyn Allen and Judith A. Howard (University of Washington), they were replaced in 2000 by Sandra Harding and Kathryn Norberg (University of California, Los Angeles), they served until 2005 when they were replaced by Mary Hawkesworth (Rutgers University). Since 2015, Suzanna Danuta Walters (Northeastern University) has been editor-in-chief. The journal was called "prestigious" in a French review article of women's studies in America.[2]
Abstracting and indexing[edit]
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 0.896, ranking it 14th out of 41 journals in the category "Women's Studies".[3]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Hawkesworth, M (2011). "Signs 2005–2015: Reflections on the Nature and Global Reach of Interdisciplinary Feminist Knowledge Production". Signs 36 (3): 511–519. doi:10.1086/657513. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
- ^ Schwartz, Paula (July–Sep 2002). ""Women's Studies, Gender Studies": Le contexte américain". Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire 75: 15–20. doi:10.2307/3771854. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Women's Studies". 2014 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2015.
