Mary Hawkesworth


Mary Hawkesworth is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is a political scientist trained in feminist theory and has conducted extensive research in women and politics, gender, and contemporary feminist activism. Hawkesworth was previously the Editor-in-Chief of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, an internationally recognized journal in feminist scholarship.

Selected publications

Books

  • Gender and Political Theory: Feminist Reckonings, Polity Press, 2019.
  • Globalization and Feminist Activism, 2nd Edition, Rowman and Littlefield, 2018.
  • The Douglass Century: The Transformation of Women's Education at Rutgers, Rutgers University Press, 2018..
  • Embodied Power: Demystifying Disembodied Politics, Routledge, 2016.
  • Political Worlds of Women: Activism, Advocacy, and Governance in the 21st Century, Westview, 2012.
  • Globalization and Feminist Activism, Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.
  • Feminist Inquiry: From Political Conviction to Methodological Innovation, Rutgers University Press, 2006.
  • Women, Democracy and Globalization in North America, Palgrave, 2006.
  • Beyond Oppression: Feminist Theory and Political Strategy, New York: Continuum Press, 1990.
  • Theoretical Issues in Policy Analysis, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.

Edited works

  • Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory, Oxford University Press, 2016..
  • Gender and Power: Toward Equality and Democratic Governance, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015..
  • Feminist Practices: A Digital Course Reader, University of Chicago Press, 2013.
  • War and Terror: Feminist Perspectives, University of Chicago Press, 2008..
  • Routledge Encyclopedia of Government and Politics, 2nd Revised Edition, 2 vols., London: Routledge, 2004.
  • Gender, Globalization and Democratization, Boulder, Co., Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. Translated by Alina Pilea and Nadia Farcaş into Romanian, Gen, Globalizare Şi Democratizare, Bucharest, Editura POLIROM, 2004.
  • Feminism and Public Policy. A Special Double Issue of Policy Sciences 27: 1994.
  • Encyclopedia of Government and Politics, 2 vols., London: Routledge, 1992..

Awards and honors

Her article, “Congressional Enactments of Race-Gender: Toward a Theory of Raced-Gendered Institutions,” American Political Science Review 97:529-550 was awarded the Heinz Eulau Prize for Best Paper Published in APSR in 2003.