Call for Papers: The Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist ScholarshipSource: Signs, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Winter 2014), p. ixPublished by: The University of Chicago PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674895 .

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Call for Papers: The Catharine Stimpson Prize for

Outstanding Feminist Scholarship

he University of Chicago Press is pleased to announce the competition

T for the 2015 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist

Scholarship. Named in honor of the founding editor of Signs: Journal

of Women in Culture and Society, the Catharine Stimpson Prize is designed

to recognize excellence and innovation in the work of emerging feminist

scholars.

The Catharine Stimpson Prize is awarded biennially to the best paper

in an international competition. Leading feminist scholars from around

the globe will select the winner. The prizewinning paper will be published

in Signs, and the author will be provided an honorarium of $1,000. All

papers submitted for the Stimpson Prize will be considered for peer review

and possible publication in Signs.

Eligibility: Feminist scholars in the early years of their careers ðfewerthan seven years since receipt of the terminal degreeÞ are invited to submit

papers for the Stimpson Prize. Papers may be on any topic that falls under

the broad rubric of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship. Submissions must

be no longer than 10,000 words ðincluding notes and referencesÞ and must

conform to the guidelines for Signs contributors. Guidelines for submis-

sion are available at http://www.jstor.org/page/journal/signs/instruct

.html.

Deadline for Submissions: March 1, 2014.

Please submit papers online at http://signs.edmgr.com. Be sure to se-

lect Major Article–Stimpson Prize as the article type when submitting and

to indicate submission for consideration for the prize in the cover letter.

Please send any inquiries to signs@signs.rutgers.edu. The honorarium will

be awarded upon publication of the prizewinning article.

Congratulations to Anna Hajkova, winner of the 2013 Catharine Stimp-

son Prize, for her essay “Sexual Barter in Times of Genocide: Negotiating the

Sexual Economy of the Theresienstadt Ghetto,” which appears in the Spring

2013 issue of Signs.

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