IRW Books

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• The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor (ed. Dorothy Sue Cobble, 2007)
• Working-Class Subjectivities and Sexualities (Special issue of International Labor and Working-Class History, No. 69 (Spring 2006), ed. Dorothy Sue Cobble and Victoria Hattam)
• Gendering Disability (ed. Bonnie G. Smith and Beth Hutchison, 2004)
• Feminist Locations: Local and Global, Theory and Practice (ed. Marianne DeKoven, 2001)
• Transitions, Environments, Translations: Feminisms in International Politics (ed. Joan W. Scott, Cora Kaplan and Debra Keates, 1997)
• Reproductive Laws for the 1990s (ed. Sherrill Cohen and Nadine Taub, 1989)
• Women, Households, and the Economy (ed. Lourdes Beneria and Catharine R. Stimpson, 1987)

• Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory and Writing By Black Women (ed. Cheryl Wall, 1989)

 

 

       

        The papers collected in The Sex of Class: Women   

                  Transforming American Labor, edited by Dorothy Sue

                  Cobble (Cornell University Press 2007), examine the role

                  sex plays in the workforce, as well as contemporary and

                  historical domestic and global labor movements.

 

Gendering Disability, edited by Bonnie G. Smith and Beth Hutchison (Rutgers University Press 2004), collects work presented at a three-day IRW conference that brought together gender studies and disabilities studies scholars.

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   Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory

   and Practice, edited by Marianne DeKoven (Rutgers

   University Press 2001), is based on scholarship

   presented at the IRW from 1995 to1998.

 

 

 

                               Transitions, Environments, Translations: Feminisms

                               in International Politics, edited by Joan W. Scott, Cora      

                               Kaplan, and Debra Keates (Routledge 1997), from work 

                               presented at a conference jointly presented by the             

                               Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton and the IRW and

                               funded by the American Council of Learned Societies, the

                               Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the

                               Rutgers University Research Council.

 

 

 

Journal of International Labor and Working-Class

History, No. 69 (Spring 2006); Special issue on

"Working-Class Subjectivities and Sexualities" (Issue

editors Dorothy Sue Cobble and Victoria Hattam).

 

 

 

 

 

                    With the Women's Rights Litigation Clinic at Rutgers Law  

                    School-Newark, the IRW co-sponsored The Project on

                    Reproductive Rights Laws for the 1990s which culminated in 

                    the 1989 Rutgers University Press volume Reproductive

                    Laws for the 1990s co-edited by Sherrill Cohen and Nadine

                    Taub.

 

 

 

 

 

                  Women, Households, and the Economy, edited by  

                  Lourdes Beneria and Catharine R. Stimpson (Rutgers

                  University Press, 1987), collects papers presented at a

                  two-day conference stemming from a grant from the Russell  

                  Sage Foundation "to bring together a group of scholars on the

                  cutting edge of the thinking about women and the economy"   

                  (Preface).

                 

 

 

 

  

   Describing the impetus for Changing Our Own Words: Essays on

   Criticism, Theory and Writing By Black Women(Rugters University

   Press, 1989), Board of Governors Zora Neale Hurston Professor of

   English Cheryl Wall writes, "I took the idea for a one-day conference to

   then-IRW director Carol Smith, who embraced it enthusiastically. The

   conference on October 22-23, 1987, was one of the most gratifying

   experiences of my career. The room for the symposium was filled with

   many of the most brilliant scholars and writers of my generation. The

   book became one of the foundational texts in black feminist criticsm. I

   will forever be grateful for the support of the IRW."