Rutgers University
Institute for Research on Women
http://irw.rutgers.edu
The 2004-2005 IRW/ IWL Seminar is titled “Diversity: Expanding Theory and Practice.” In this seminar, faculty and graduate student seminar fellows are discussing one another's work-in-progress to explore how cultural and social differences, such as those based on race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion, and sexuality, affect economic opportunity, political inclusion, and social integration. The seminar aims to open up conversations about how hierarchies based on difference are reproduced and maintained and how these differences have shaped social processes, institutions and intimate relations over time and place. Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and Practice , edited by Marianne DeKoven (Rutgers University Press, 2001). This book collects scholarship presented at the IRW from 1995-1998. Four volumes of condensed working papers from the seminars are available: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Working Papers from the 2002-2003 Seminar. Power, Practice, Agency: Working Papers from the Women in the Public Sphere Seminar, 1997-1998. [Return to home]
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160 Ryders Lane
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: 732-932-9072
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CENTER DESCRIPTION
At the forefront of interdisciplinary feminist research for twenty years, the Institute for Research on Women (IRW) has been a central force in establishing Rutgers University as one of the most distinguished research institutions for the study of women and gender in the world. Affiliates include 900 faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates drawn from a wide range of disciplines on all three of the University campuses. The IRW promotes innovative scholarship on women and gender through interdisciplinary forums, lectures, and conferences that bring together IRW affiliates with top visiting scholars from the US and abroad. Each year, the IRW selects faculty and graduate students to participate in a weekly interdisciplinary research seminar on current themes. Recent grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Rockefeller Foundation have supported the IRW's residential fellows program and its long-standing commitment to the dissemination of gender scholarship among high school teachers and others outside the University community.
The IRW's mission is to stimulate research and teaching on women and gender within and across the disciplines. IRW directors serve three-year terms and identify themes for an annual lecture series and weekly faculty/graduate seminar.
AREA(S) OF EXPERTISE
Feminist thought and scholarship; leadership and leadership development; politics.
RECENT PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES
Each year, the IRW convenes a weekly seminar of Rutgers faculty and graduate students, along with IRW visiting scholars, whose work addresses a common theme. Recent seminar themes have included:
Information about participants and their projects is available on the IRW webpage.
PUBLICATIONS
Gendering Disability, edited by Bonnie G. Smith and Beth Hutchison (Rutgers University Press, 2004). This book collects work presented at a three-day IRW conference that brought together gender studies and disabilities studies scholars.
Femininities, Masculinities, and the Politics of Sexual Difference(s): Working Papers from the 2003-2004 Seminar.
Modes of Knowledge and Action: Working Papers from the Women in the Public Sphere Seminar, 1998-1999.