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1 S i g n s J o u r n a l o f W o m e n i n C u l t u r e a n d S o c i e t y Volume 43 Number 2 Winter 2018 T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F C H I C A G O P R E S S

2 Cover: Ellen Driscoll, The Loophole of Retreat, foot wooden cone, twelve mixed-media objects on motorized wheel, seven suspended columns with interior lights receiving shadow images on salt piles on the floor, and a inch accordion book. Photo by George Hirose. Based on Harriet Jacobs s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this piece takes its title from a chapter in her book. The installation invites viewers into the central camera obscura one at a time. In the pitch-dark interior, rocked by slight movement of the cone s round form, the viewer s eyes dilate slowly to apprehend a series of fleeting black-and-white images created by the lexicon of objects moving outside on the wheel. Driscoll s impulse to use scattered parts and a moving image in her model literalizes the conditions of fragmentation and homelessness. 1 For Jacobs, the loophole was the break in the wall, the fissure in the system that offered some promise of an embodied participation in the world by Ellen Driscoll. Permission to reprint may be obtained only from the artist. 1 Barbara Rodriguez, Autobiographical Inscriptions: Form, Personhood, and the American Woman Writer of Color (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), Patricia C. Philips, The Proportions of Paradox: The Work of Ellen Driscoll, Sculpture 19, no. 9 (2000).

3 S i g n s J o u r n a l o f W o m e n i n C u l t u r e a n d S o c i e t y Editor in Chief Suzanna Danuta Walters Chair of the Board of Associate Editors Carla Kaplan Managing Editor Miranda Outman Deputy Editor Andrew Mazzaschi Book Review Editors Laura Green Banu Subramaniam Graduate Research and Editorial Assistants Naomi Darom Ezgi Deniz Rasit Simon A. Purdue Editorial Interns Sarah Ruth Sponsor College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University Founding Editor Catharine R. Stimpson Editors Emeritae Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi Jean F. O Barr Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres Barbara Laslett Carolyn Allen Judith A. Howard Sandra Harding Kathryn Norberg Mary Hawkesworth

4 Associate Editors Aliyyah I. Abdur- Rahman Libby Adler Aziza Ahmed Leila Ahmed Randy Albelda Sandy Alexandre Joyce Antler Moya Bailey Mahzarin Banaji Amílcar Antonio Barreto Robin Bernstein Caroline Bicks Carole Biewener Linda Blum Chris Bobel Khiara Bridges Elizabeth Bucar Margaret Burnham Elora Halim Chowdhury Genevieve Clutario Lila Abu-Lughod M. Jacqui Alexander Mieke Bal Karen Barad Eudine Barriteau Francine D. Blau Paola Bono Liana Borghi Rosi Braidotti Judith Butler Hazel Carby Rey Chow Raewyn Connell Bonnie Thornton Dill Irene Dölling Daša Duhaček Fadwa El Guindi Cynthia H. Enloe Anne Fausto-Sterling Patricia Fernández-Kelly Catherine Connell Nancy Cott Lisa Cuklanz Elizabeth Maddock Dillon Lee Edelman Shoshanna Erlich Laura Frader Laura Green Janet Halley Evelynn Hammonds Sally Haslanger Anita Hill Denise M. Horn Sarah J. Jackson Alice Jardine Jasmine Johnson Priya Lal Susan Lanser Lori Hope Lefkovitz Alisa Lincoln Françoise Lionnet International Advisory Board Małgorzata Fuszara Elena Gapova Pumla Gobodo- Madikizela Gayatri Gopinath Linda Gordon Donna Haraway Ratna Kapur Linda K. Kerber Saba Gul Khattak Michele LeDoeuff Li Xiaojiang Lisa Lowe Jasmina Lukić Amina Mama Jane Mansbridge Emily Martin Jill Julius Matthews Chandra Talpade Mohanty Zine Magubane Ashley Mears Valentine M. Moghadam Patrick Mullen Serena Parekh Sarah Pinto Carrie Preston Jyoti Puri Susan Reverby Sarah S. Richardson Sarah Ross C. Heike Schotten Harleen Singh Faith Smith Kara Swanson Jo Trigilio Berna Turam Sabina E. Vaught Susan Ware Sara Wylie Kathrin Zippel Lisa Nakamura Linda Peake Rosalind Pollack Petchesky Luana Ross Gayle Rubin Serpil Sancar Londa L. Schiebinger Joan W. Scott Rita Segato Dorothy E. Smith Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Georgina Waylen Robyn Wiegman Nira Yuval-Davis Zhang Lixi

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