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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society is a peer-reviewed international feminist academic journal established in 1975. It is published quarterly by the University of Chicago Press.

Scope
As an international peer-reviewed women’s studies journal, 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. Signs features in-depth critical analyses, review essays, comparative perspectives symposia, and retrospectives that address issues of gender, race, culture, class, nation, and sexuality. The discipline-based and interdisciplinary scholarship covers a broad range of geopolitical processes, conditions, and effects; cultural and social configurations; and scholarly and theoretical developments.

History
Signs was established in 1975 with the purpose of publishing original feminist scholarship. With an interdisciplinary focus, it aimed to offer multiple points of view, methodologies, and critical approaches through original research and essays about women, sexuality, sex roles, culture, and the social institutions in which the sexes have participated. In addition to new scholarship, Signs aimed to publish a selection of diverse documents written by women prior to 1950 that had been lost or forgotten.

From 1975-1980, Signs was published under the direction of founding editor Catharine R. Stimpson at Barnard College. From 1980-1985, the editor-in-chief was Barbara C. Gelpi at Stanford University. From 1985-1990, the editor-in-chief was Jean F. O’Barr at Duke University. From 1990-1995, the editors-in-chief were Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres and Barbara Laslett at the University of Minnesota. From 1995-2000, the editors-in-chief were Carolyn Allen and Judith A. Howard at the University of Washington. From 2000-2005, the editors-in-chief were Sandra Harding and Kathryn Norberg at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 2005, the editor-in-chief has been Mary Hawkesworth at Rutgers University.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • Academic Search Premier

• Arts and Humanities Citation Index

• ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts

• Contemporary Women’s Issues

• Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984

• Humanities Index Retrospective: 1907-1984

• JSTOR

• MLA Bibliography

• Periodicals Index Online

• PsycINFO

• Social Sciences Full Text

• Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1929-1983

• Sociological Abstracts

• VioLit

• Women's Studies International