Mary Hawkesworth is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Senior Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics, and a member of the Political Science Graduate Faculty at Rutgers University. Her teaching and research interests include feminist theory, women and politics, contemporary political philosophy, philosophy of science, and social policy. Hawkesworth is the author of Globalization and Feminist Activism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006); Feminist Inquiry: From Political Conviction to Methodological Innovation (Rutgers University Press, 2006); Beyond Oppression: Feminist Theory and Political Strategy (Continuum Press, 1990); and Theoretical Issues in Policy Analysis (State University of New York Press, 1988); ); co-author of Women, Democracy and Globalization in North America (Palgrave, 2006); editor of The Encyclopedia of Government and Politics (London: Routledge, 1992; 2nd Revised Edition, 2003), and Feminism and Public Policy (Policy Sciences 27(2-3), 1994), and co-editor of Gender, Globalization and Democratization (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001). Her articles have appeared in leading journals including the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, Signs, Hypatia, Women and Politics, Journal of Women's History, NWSA Journal, International Journal of Women's Studies, and the Women's Studies International Forum. She has served on the Editorial Boards of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Women and Politics and the International Feminist Journal of Politics. She is serving as the Editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2005-2010.