Signs (magazine)
| SIGNS Journal of Women in Culture and Society |
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| description | scientific journal |
| Area of Expertise | Women's research |
| language | English |
| publishing company | The University of Chicago Press |
| First edition | 1975 |
| Frequency of publication | quarterly |
| Editor | Mary Hawkesworth |
| Web link | www.signs.rutgers.edu |
| ISSN |
0097-9740 |
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society is an English-language journal on women's studies published by the University of Chicago Press . It was founded in 1975 and is considered to be one of the most respected academic feminist magazines.
Content and goals
In addition to the main articles, the small-format booklet contains a comparative symposium of controversial concepts by academic feminists and activists from different regions of the world, reviews of the perception of feminist research, and outlooks on new academic trends .
The aim of Signs is to contribute to the expansion of knowledge about the lives of women and men in different regions of the world through the publication of academic papers that raise new questions as well as develop innovative approaches to understanding the past and present.
Both articles on research work from a special subject area and interdisciplinary work are accepted for publication . The subject areas include the social formation of “ race ” (racialization), sexuality (sexualization) and gender (gendering) in various social contexts. These relationships include interpersonal dynamics and family relationships, national and international institutions, laws and policies, norms of organizations, practices of production and consumption , division of labor , patterns of building and reducing skilled workers (skilling / deskilling), distributions of political and economic rights Opportunities , regulation of family life, mobility and migration , systems of visibility and invisibility, mechanisms of social inclusion and exclusion , verbal and visual representation , formation of ideologies and production of culture .
In 2012, the journal had an impact factor of 0.556 and was therefore ranked 21st out of 38 journals in the Social Science Citation Index in the women's research category.
Individual evidence
- ^ ISI Web of Knowledge, Journal Citation Reports Social Science Edition, 2012.