INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN

Management and team. Structure

Director
Executive Director
Administrative Assistant
IRW Learning Community Coordinator
Executive Committee: Elected and Appointed Members and Ex Officio Members
Affiliate members: include faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates drawn from a wide range of disciplines at the New Brunswick, Newark and Camden campuses.

Seeking to expand feminist scholarship and activism beyond the university’s fledgling Women’s Studies program.
To advance interdisciplinary scholarship on gender, sexuality and women.
To be at the forefront of feminist research for almost fifty years.
To support a broad range of programming designed to stimulate research and activism on gender, sexuality and women within and across the disciplines, throughout and beyond Rutgers.
Promoting faculty and student connections and building intellectual community are also central to IRW’s mission.

Working Papers Archive:

Femininities, Masculinities, and The Politics of Sexual Difference(s) (Working Papers from the 2003-2004 Seminar, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Beth Hutchison and Amanda B. Chaloupka).
Reconfiguring Class and Gender (Working Papers from the 2002-2003 Seminar, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Amanda B. Chaloupka, and Beth Hutchison).
Modes of Knowledge and Action (Working Papers from the Women in the Public Sphere Seminar 1998-1999, Beth Hutchison).
Power, Practice, Agency (Working Papers from the Women in the Public Sphere Seminar 1997-1998, Marianne DeKoven).

Publications (Books):

Lourdes Beneria and Catharine R. Stimpson (Eds.), Women, Households, and the Economy, Rutgers University Press, 1987.
Cheryl Wall (Ed.), Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory and Writing By Black Women, Rutgers University Press, 1989.
Sherrill Cohen and Nadine Taub (Eds.), Reproductive Laws for the 1990s, Rutgers University Press, 1988.
Joan W. Scott, Cora Kaplan, and Debra Keates (Eds.), Transitions, Environments, Translations: Feminisms in International Politics, Routledge, 1997.
Marianne DeKoven (Ed.), Feminist Locations: Local and Global, Theory and Practice, Rutgers University Press, 2001.
Bonnie G. Smith and Beth Hutchison (Eds.), Gendering Disability, Rutgers University Press, 2004.
Dorothy Sue Cobble (Ed.), The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor, Cornell University Press, 2007.
Nancy Hewitt (Ed.), No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism, Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Dorothy L. Hodgson (Ed.), Gender and Culture at the Limits of Rights, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias (Eds.), Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities, Rutgers University Press, 2016.
Sarah Tobias and Arlene Stein (Eds.), The Perils of Populism, Rutgers University Press, 2022.

Rejoinder Journal – An online journal published by the Institute for Research on Women.
IRW Podcasting Project “Mnemosyne” (Since 2021).

2022-2023 – Seminar Fellows:

Insurgent Healing: The Radicalism of Black Women’s Care (Kim Butler).
Undocumented Migrants in California’s Central Valley (Gabrielle Cabrera).
Parenting at the End of the World: The Double-Bind of Caregivers as Individuals in Times of Crisis (Elizabeth Decker).
Gendering Sanctions in North Korea through an Ethics of Care (Suzy Kim).
Care Work for Frontiers Building: Women, Commercial Sex, and Settler Colonialism in the American Philippines (Eri Kitada).
Beyond Modernity and Indigeneity: Adivasi Youths’ Engagement with Development in Central India (Rashmi Kumari).
A Woman’s Desire Is a Man’s Abstraction: How Women (Under)Wrote Hindi Modernism (Preetha Mani).
Abolitionist Childhood: Forging Freedom, Healing, and Radical Love in the Now (Lauren Silver).