The Aug. 2013 issue (Vol. 39, No. 1) of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society focuses on “Women, Gender, and Prison: National and Global Perspectives.”
According to the journal website:
The past forty years have witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of women imprisoned worldwide; over half a million women are now incarcerated, and the growth rate of women’s imprisonment has outstripped that of men’s. Despite neoliberal commitments to cut back the state, many states have dramatically increased spending on policing and imprisonment at the same time that the privatization of prisons and the diffusion of carceral power have escalated. This special issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, available on JSTOR, addresses these troubling and complex trends, bringing incisive feminist and intersectional critical analysis to bear on the experiences of imprisoned women in diverse geographical and historical contexts, the raced-gendered logics through which carcerality operates, and the role of incarceration and policing in producing gendered, raced, and classed national subjects. The issue features cover art by Toni Bowers and Natasha Ward.
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